Who is the research subject in cluster randomized trials in health research?

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McRae, Andrew D ^a,b,c   Weijer, Charles ^a,c   Binik, Ariella ^c   White, Angela ^c   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^d,e   Boruch, Robert ^f   Brehaut, Jamie C ^d,e   Donner, Allan ^a,g   Eccles, Martin P ^h   Saginur, Raphael ⁱ   Zwarenstein, Merrick ^j   Taljaard, Monica ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^j SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED NET; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; MALARIA; NOMENCLATURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDY DESIGN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN RELATION; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENTIALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PATIENT RIGHTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960688269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-183     Document Type: Article

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