Design and analysis of studies evaluating smoking cessation interventions where effects vary between practices or practitioners.
BACKGROUND: Patients grouped together in practices may share characteristics that cause them to have similar responses to an intervention. Sampling from such groups means that the power of a trial is less than when subjects are selected from the population at random. Knowledge of likely variation in...
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Language: | English |
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1996
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