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Clinimetrics corner: choosing appropriate study designs for particular questions about treatment subgroups

Peter Kent, Mark J. Hancock, Ditte H. D. Petersen, Hanne Leirbekk Mjøsund

Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy · 2010 · 19 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

If the clinical usefulness of targeting treatments to subgroups of people is to be determined, an important step is a shared understanding of what different RCT designs can tell us about subgroups.

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