Rainforest plots for the presentation of patient-subgroup analysis in clinical trials

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 24, 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Zhongheng ^a   Kossmeier, Michael ^b   Tran, Ulrich S ^b   Voracek, Martin ^b   Zhang, Haoyang ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Rainforest plot; Subgroup; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; RAIN FOREST;

EID: 85038024212     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2017.10.07     Document Type: Article

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