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Clustering in surgical trials - database of intracluster correlations

BACKGROUND: Randomised trials evaluation of surgical interventions are often designed and analysed as if the outcome of individual patients is independent of the surgeon providing the intervention. There is reason to expect outcomes for patients treated by the same surgeon tend to be more similar th...

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Autores principales: Cook, Jonathan A, Bruckner, Thomas, MacLennan, Graeme S, Seiler, Christoph M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3311136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22217216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-2