The dog-leg: An alternative to a cross-over design for pragmatic clinical trials in relatively stable populations

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 930-936

  Hooper, Richard ^a   Bourke, Liam ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trial design; Cross over trials; Dog leg; Stepped wedge

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELATIVE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84902655478     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt281     Document Type: Article

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