Challenges of prolonged follow-up and temporal imbalance in pragmatic trials: Analysis of the ENCOURAGE trial

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages S66-S72

  Richman, Joshua S ^a,b   Andreae, Susan ^c   Safford, Monika M ^c  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based trials; Nonlinear models; Statistical data interpretation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ACCURACY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRAGMATIC CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84982224702     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1790     Document Type: Article

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