Evaluation metrics for biostatistical and epidemiological collaborations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2767-2777

  Rubio, Doris McGartland ^a   del Junco, Deborah J ^b   Bhore, Rafia ^c   Lindsell, Christopher J ^d   Oster, Robert A ^e   Wittkowski, Knut M ^f   Welty, Leah J ^g   Li, Yi Ju ^h   Demets, Dave ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical research; Biostatistics; Clinical and translational science; Collaboration; Epidemiology; Metrics; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METRIC SYSTEM; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

BIOSTATISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053178496     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4184     Document Type: Article

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