The national lung screening trial's endpoint verification process: Determining the cause of death

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 834-840

  Marcus, Pamela M ^a   Gareen, Ilana F ^b   Miller, Anthony B ^c   Rosenbaum, Jennifer ^d   Keating, Kristen ^d   Aberle, Denise R ^e   Berg, Christine D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WESTAT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjudication committee; Cause of death; Lung cancer; Mass screening; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ENDPOINT VERIFICATION PROCESS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

EID: 80053386881     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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