Guidance for using pilot studies to inform the design of intervention trials with continuous outcomes

BACKGROUND: A pilot study can be an important step in the assessment of an intervention by providing information to design the future definitive trial. Pilot studies can be used to estimate the recruitment and retention rates and population variance and to provide preliminary evidence of efficacy po...

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Autores principales: Bell, Melanie L, Whitehead, Amy L, Julious, Steven A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
Materias:
Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29403314
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S146397

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29403314
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S146397

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