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Ethical implications of excessive cluster sizes in cluster randomised trials

The cluster randomised trial (CRT) is commonly used in healthcare research. It is the gold-standard study design for evaluating healthcare policy interventions. A key characteristic of this design is that as more participants are included, in a fixed number of clusters, the increase in achievable po...

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Autores principales: Hemming, Karla, Taljaard, Monica, Forbes, Gordon, Eldridge, Sandra M, Weijer, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6204928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29463768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007164