Improving the efficiency of stroke trials: Feasibility and efficacy of group adjudication of functional end points

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3422-3428

  McArthur, Kate S ^a   Johnson, Paul C D ^a   Quinn, Terence J ^a   Higgins, Peter ^a   Langhorne, Peter ^a   Walters, Matthew R ^a   Weir, Christopher J ^a,b   Dawson, Jesse ^a   Lees, Kennedy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Modified Rankin Scale; Outcome assessment; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLINICAL TRIALS; MODIFIED RANKIN SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889253023     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002266     Document Type: Article

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