Ensuring balanced groups in surgical trials

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 418-423

  Farrokhyar, Forough ^a,b   Bajammal, Sohail ^c   Kahnamoui, Kamyar ^b   Bhandari, Mohit ^b  

^a Departments of Surgery   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURGERY;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 78649775801     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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