Developing a placebo-controlled trial in surgery: Issues of design, acceptability and feasibility

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Campbell, M K ^a   Entwistle, V A ^b   Cuthbertson, B H ^c   Skea, Z C ^a   Sutherland, A G ^d   McDonald, A M ^a   Norrie, J D ^e   Carlson, R V ^f   Bridgman, S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTHROSCOPIC LAVAGE; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LAVAGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESEARCH ETHICS; STUDY DESIGN; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ARTHROSCOPY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RESEARCH DESIGN; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951696478     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-50     Document Type: Article

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