Cascade diagrams for depicting complex interventions in randomised trials

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hooper, Richard ^a   Froud, Robert J ^b,c   Bremner, Stephen A ^a   Perera, Rafael ^d   Eldridge, Sandra ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Campus Kristiania ^*  (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASCADE DIAGRAM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING CARE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WORKFLOW;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 84888239517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f6681     Document Type: Article

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