Can emergency medicine research benefit from adaptive design clinical trials?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 243-248

  Flight, Laura ^a   Julious, Steven A ^a   Goodacre, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE;

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84994823996     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2016-206046     Document Type: Review

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