Studywise minimization: A treatment allocation method that improves balance among treatment groups and makes allocation unpredictable

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1118-1122

  Perry, Marieke ^a   Faes, Miriam ^a   Reelick, Miriam F ^a   Olde Rikkert, Marcel G M ^a   Borm, George F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imbalance prognostic factors; Minimization; Randomized controlled trial; Selection bias; Treatment allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STUDYWISE MINIMIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 78349278482     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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