<p>After 13 years there are new areas to discuss and more recent trials to be included. Good clinical practice; evaluation of quality of life; measurement of the benefit:risk comparison; determination of cost- effectiveness and cost utility; stopping rules for trials; meta-analysis and subgroup anal
Randomised Controlled Trials: A User's Guide
β Scribed by Alejandro R. Jadad, Alejandro, R Jarad
- Publisher
- Bmj Publishing Group
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 69
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The randomised controlled trial is one of the simplest, most powerful and revolutionary tools of research. This new book is written for any person interested in the use of RCTs in clinical, research, or policy decisions. It will be a valuable source of information in which users will find accessible, non-statistical answers to their most frequently asked questions.
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<p>Bradford Hill has defined a clinical trial as "A carefully and ethically designed experiment with the aim of answering some precisely framed question" [1]. This definition specifies a careful design and requires the provision of adequate controls. Random allocation of treatments to subjects is im
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<div>This book provides a practical guide to the analysis of data from randomized controlled trials (RCT). It gives an answer to the question of how to estimate the intervention effect in an appropriate way. This problem is examined for different RCT designs, suchΒ as RCTs with one follow-up measurem
<div>This book provides a practical guide to the analysis of data from randomized controlled trials (RCT). It gives an answer to the question of how to estimate the intervention effect in an appropriate way. This problem is examined for different RCT designs, suchΒ as RCTs with one follow-up measurem