ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2015
A brief history of the cluster randomised trial design.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effect of Sanitation Interventions on Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trials in Rural Communities of Low- and Middle-Income Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Bayesian statistics in the design and analysis of cluster randomised controlled trials and their reporting quality: a methodological systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
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- Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition among under-five children residing in urban slums and rural area, Maharashtra, India: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2020Trial
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- Gaps in the Ottawa Statement on the Ethical Design and Conduct of Cluster Randomized Trials: a citation analysis reveals a need for updated ethics guidelines.Research integrity and peer review · 2025Article
- Warnings on the inclusion of cluster randomized trials in meta-analysis: results of a simulation study.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
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- Assessing the representativeness of cluster randomized trials: Evidence from two large pragmatic trials in United States nursing homes.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2023Article
- Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: results of a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Registry randomised trials: a methodological perspective.BMJ open · 2023Review
- Assessment of Vaccine Herd Protection: Lessons Learned From Cholera and Typhoid Vaccine Trials.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Using the potential outcome framework to estimate optimal sample size for cluster randomized trials: a simulation-based algorithm.Journal of statistical computation and simulation · 2021Article
- Clustering of continuous and binary outcomes at the general practice level in individually randomised studies in primary care - a review of 10 years of primary care trials.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Review
- An educational intervention based on the extended parallel process model to improve attitude, behavioral intention, and early breast cancer diagnosis: a randomized trial.International journal of women's health · 2019Article
- Comparison of registered and published intervention fidelity assessment in cluster randomised trials of public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2016Article
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