Four "lessons learned" while implementing a multi-site caries prevention trial

Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-175

  Bader, James D ^a   Robinson, Debbie S ^a   Gilbert, Gregg H ^b   Ritter, Andre V ^a   Makhija, Sonia K ^b   Funkhouser, Kimberly A ^c   Amaechi, Bennett T ^d   Shugars, Daniel A ^a   Laws, Reesa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

manual of procedures; patient recruitment; randomized controlled trial; run in period; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARD;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATA COLLECTION; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956303308     PISSN: 00224006     EISSN: 17527325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.2010.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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