Statistical lessons learned for designing cluster randomized pragmatic clinical trials from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory Biostatistics and Design Core

Clinical Trials

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 504-512

  Cook, Andrea J ^a,b   Delong, Elizabeth ^c,d   Murray, David M ^e   Vollmer, William M ^f   Heagerty, Patrick J ^b  

^a GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster randomized; electronic health record; group randomized; NIH Collaboratory; Pragmatic clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; BIOSTATISTICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIOSTATISTICS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84987704248     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774516646578     Document Type: Article

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