Knowledge of treatment group does not bias assessment of time to seizure in an animal model of cocaine poisoning

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2010, Pages e75-e77

  Heard, Kennon J ^a,b,c   Krier, Shay ^c   Cleveland, Nathan R ^c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal research; Bias; Blinding; Cocaine; Seizure

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG INTOXICATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSERVER BIAS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

EID: 77955885279     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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