The evolution of ways of deciding when clinical trials should stop recruiting

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-39

  Armitage, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN;

EID: 84891881228     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076813514681     Document Type: Article

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