Methods don't make assumptions, researchers do: A response to Marchal etal.

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-82

  Bonell, Chris ^a   Fletcher, Adam ^b   Morton, Matthew ^a   Lorenc, Theo ^c   Moore, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methodology; Randomised controlled trials

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

METHODOLOGY; RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84881508787     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.026     Document Type: Note

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