Some clinical trials involving subjects with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) allow a subject to change treatment when a marker of disease progression, for example, the CD4 cell count, falls below a defined threshold. Although the change does not involve a randomized control, there is consider
Clinical trials in a changing era
β Scribed by Dr Guy M. McKhann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 512 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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