Registration and design alterations of clinical trials in critical care: A cross-sectional observational study

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 700-722

  Anand, Vijay ^a   Scales, Damon C ^c,d,e   Parshuram, Christopher S ^b,c,e   Kavanagh, Brian P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Primary outcome; Registration; Registry; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REGISTRATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDIZATION; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CRITICAL CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84903315554     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3250-7     Document Type: Article

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