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Spatial effects should be allowed for in primary care and other community-based cluster RCTS

BACKGROUND: Typical advice on the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials (C-RCTs) focuses on allowance for the clustering at the level of the unit of allocation. However often C-RCTs are also organised spatially as may occur in the fields of Public Health and Primary Care where populations...

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Autores principales: Silcocks, Paul, Kendrick, Denise
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20470402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-55