ReviewBMJ quality & safety2021
Cutting edge or blunt instrument: how to decide if a stepped wedge design is right for you.
Review in BMJ quality & safety, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Reported problems and responses during the conduct of stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials in healthcare settings: a qualitative systematic review.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- Health Economic Evaluation Alongside Stepped Wedge Trials: A Methodological Systematic Review.PharmacoEconomics · 2021Pooled it
- Integrating Cost into Shared Decision-Making for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (POCKET-COST-HF): A Trial Providing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Heart Failure Medications during Clinical Encounters.American heart journal · 2024Trial
- Cluster-Randomized Trials in Emergency Care Research.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Review
- Grand rounds in methodology: improving the design of staggered implementation cluster randomised trials.BMJ quality & safety · 2025Article
- How to Design and Write Your Quality Improvement Study for Publication: Pearls and Pitfalls.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2025Article
- Multilevel Intervention Stepped Wedge Designs (MLI-SWDs).Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Randomized controlled trials in resuscitation.Resuscitation plus · 2024Review
- Optimal study designs for cluster randomised trials: An overview of methods and results.Statistical methods in medical research · 2023Review
- Key considerations for designing, conducting and analysing a cluster randomized trial.International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- A multi-dimensional incomplete stepped-wedge trial design to estimate the impact of standards-based audit.PloS one · 2023Article
- Designing and undertaking randomised implementation trials: guide for researchers.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Article
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