In oncology, a patient's treatment often involves multiple courses of chemotherapy. The most common medical practice in choosing treatments for successive courses is to repeat a treatment that is successful in a given course and otherwise switch to a different treatment. Patient outcome thus consist
Evaluating Co-primary Endpoints Collectively in Clinical Trials
โ Scribed by Qian H. Li
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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