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Methods for specifying the target difference in a randomised controlled trial: the Difference ELicitation in TriAls (DELTA) systematic review.
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BACKGROUND: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely accepted as the preferred study design for evaluating healthcare interventions. When the sample size is determined, a (target) difference is typically specified that the RCT is designed to detect. This provides reassurance that the study will be informative, i.e., should such a difference exist, it is likely to be detected with the required statistical precision. The aim of this review was to identify potential methods for specifying ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001645
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- e1001645
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
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1549-1676
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1549-1277
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English
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pubs:465180
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2014-06-17
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- Hislop et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- Copyright © 2014 Hislop et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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