Sham controls in medical device trials

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 892-893

  Redberg, Rita F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; PLACEBO;

ANALGESIA; ARTERY PUNCTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORONARY ARTERY; CRANIOTOMY; DEVICE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY DENERVATION; MEDICAL DEVICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICARE; MIGRAINE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SHAM PROCEDURE; THERAPY EFFECT; ARTICLE; DEVICE APPROVAL; DEVICES; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHICS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; RESEARCH ETHICS; STANDARD;

DEVICE APPROVAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION;

EID: 84906996718     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1406388     Document Type: Article

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