Improved Designs for Cluster Randomized Trials

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-16

  Crespi, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Crossover; Factorial; Group randomized; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL (TOPIC); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; STROKE PATIENT; STUDY DESIGN; TAI CHI; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84982833603     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021702     Document Type: Review

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