"Flogging dead horses": Evaluating when have clinical trials achieved sufficiency and stability? A case study in cardiac rehabilitation

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dent, Louise ^a   Taylor, Rod ^b   Jolly, Kate ^c   Raftery, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART REHABILITATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMMUNITY CARE; HEART DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART DISEASES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953092470     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-83     Document Type: Article

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