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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...
Autores principales: | Bell, Melanie L, Whitehead, Amy L, Julious, Steven A |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2018
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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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