Meta-analyses involving cross-over trials: methodological issues
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Meta-analyses involving cross-over trials: methodological issues.
BACKGROUND Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is usually based on trials where patients are randomized individually into two different, parallel, treatment groups. This paper concentrates on RCTs of a different design-two-period, two-treatment cross-over trials. METHODS The characteristics of these trials are outlined, with detailed examples of methods for analysis for both ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.1.140