The stepped wedge design does not inherently have more power than a cluster randomized controlled trial

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1059-1060

  Kotz, Daniel ^a   Spigt, Mark ^b   Arts, Ilja C W ^a   Crutzen, Rik ^a   Viechtbauer, Wolfgang ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFECT SIZE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STEPPED WEDGE DESIGN; STUDY DESIGN;

HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84882746584     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.05.004     Document Type: Letter

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3. D. Kotz, M. Spigt, I.C.W. Arts, R. Crutzen, and W. Viechtbauer Researchers should convince policy makers to perform a classic cluster randomized controlled trial instead of a stepped wedge design when an intervention is rolled out J Clin Epidemiol 65 2012 1255 1256
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