Impact of GOS misclassification on ordinal outcome analysis of traumatic brain injury clinical trials

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 719-726

  Lu, Juan ^a,b   Marmarou, Anthony ^a   Lapane, Kate L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical trials; Glasgow Outcome Scale; misclassification; probability sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ERROR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863370176     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1746     Document Type: Article

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