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ArticleJAMA internal medicine2025

What Is a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial?

Fan Li, Bingkai Wang, Patrick J Heagerty

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Article in JAMA internal medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fan LiDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
Bingkai WangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Patrick J HeagertyDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle.

Funding

Improving the design and statistical analysis of cluster-randomized trials on tropical infectious diseasesR00AI173395 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WANG, BINGKAI · 2024 to 2025
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NIAID NIH HHS R00 AI173395
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PMCPMC12052484

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