Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: Designing, analyzing, and reporting cluster randomized controlled trials

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 241-248

  Brown, Andrew W ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Brown, Michelle M Bohan ^b   Kaiser, Kathryn A ^a   Keith, Scott W ^c   Oakes, J Michael ^d   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community randomized trial; Group randomized trial; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Power analysis; Reporting fidelity

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POWER ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; TRENDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84938689667     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.105072     Document Type: Review

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