GRIST: Growing recruitment in interventional and surgical trials

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 140-141

  Treasure, Tom ^a   Morton, Dion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MESOTHELIOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL SCIENCE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84861469396     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110307     Document Type: Editorial

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