Obtaining Individual Patient Data from Randomised Controlled Trials

Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-Analysis in Context: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 109-121

  Clarke, Michael J ^a,b   Stewart, Lesley A ^c  

^a UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICE UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; Patient data; Public health; Randomised controlled trials; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948761091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693926.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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