Looking ahead: Clinical trial design in adult congenital heart disease

Future Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-304

  Khairy, Paul ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

adult congenital heart disease; Bayesian trial; clinical trials; internal pilot; outcome adaptive randomization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858641240     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.11.93     Document Type: Review

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