The quality of reporting in cluster randomised crossover trials: Proposal for reporting items and an assessment of reporting quality

Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Arnup, Sarah J ^a   Forbes, Andrew B ^a   Kahan, Brennan C ^b   Morgan, Katy E ^c   McKenzie, Joanne E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster; Cluster randomised crossover trial; Crossover; Reporting quality

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EMBASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDLINE; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 85002252496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1685-6     Document Type: Article

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