Clinical effectiveness: an approach to clinical trial design more relevant to clinical practice, acknowledging the

R A Moore1, S Derry, H J McQuay

  • 1Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK Department of Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Göttingen, Waldweg 37 B, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany The UK Cochrane Centre, NHS R&D Programme, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford OX2 7LG, UK Pain Clinic/Regional Centre of Excellence in Palliative Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway Pain Clinic, Department of Anaesthesiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, PO Box 140, 00029 HUS, Finland CPMC Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Pain
|September 15, 2009
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