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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 | Special Issue 1/2013

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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. …
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Title
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
Publication date
01-11-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Trials / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-S1-O86

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