The stepped-wedge clinical trial evaluation by rolling deployment

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 607-608

  Ellenberg, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STEPPED WEDGE CLINICAL TRIAL; STUDY DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85042027850     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.21993     Document Type: Review

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