Clustering in surgical trials - database of intracluster correlations

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cook, Jonathan A ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^b   MacLennan, Graeme S ^a   Seiler, Christoph M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clustering; ICC; Multicentre; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE SURGERY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STUDY DESIGN; SURGERY; THYROID SURGERY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA BASE; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855261156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-2     Document Type: Article

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