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Allocation of patients to treatment groups in a controlled clinical study.

In a controlled clinical study ("clinical trial") to compare 2 or more treatments for a disease, an objective method of allocating patients to treatment groups is needed. Various existing methods of allocation are described, including those which take account of patients' pre-treatmen...

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Autores principales: White, S. J., Freedman, L. S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1978
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2009630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/350254
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spelling pubmed-20096302009-09-10 Allocation of patients to treatment groups in a controlled clinical study. White, S. J. Freedman, L. S. Br J Cancer Research Article In a controlled clinical study ("clinical trial") to compare 2 or more treatments for a disease, an objective method of allocating patients to treatment groups is needed. Various existing methods of allocation are described, including those which take account of patients' pre-treatment characteristics. Nature Publishing Group 1978-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2009630/ /pubmed/350254 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_full_unstemmed Allocation of patients to treatment groups in a controlled clinical study.
title_short Allocation of patients to treatment groups in a controlled clinical study.
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