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Open Access
01-11-2013 | Oral presentation
Accounting for intervention complexity in rcts in surgery: new approaches for intervention definition and methods for monitoring fidelity
Authors:
Natalie Blencowe, Alex Boddy, Alexander Harris, Tom Hanna, Penny Whiting, Jonathan Cook, Jane Blazeby
Published in:
Trials
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
The recognition that surgical interventions are complex has major implications for the design of RCTs, including the need for methods to describe interventions in study protocols to allow delivery and fidelity to be accurately assessed. We report approaches to defining and describing surgical interventions and assessing intervention fidelity. …