Participation bias among suicidal adults in a randomized controlled trial

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-209

  Stirman, Shannon Wiltsey ^a   Brown, Gregory K ^b   Ghahramanlou Holloway, Marjan ^c   Fox, Allison J ^b   Chohan, Mariam Zahid ^b   Beck, Aaron T ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 79953819958     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2010.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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