Open AccessClinical Hypertension Research Tools: The Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Author(s) -
Lackland Daniel T.,
Woolson Robert F.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/j.1524-6175.2006.04721.x
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , intensive care medicine , medline , alternative medicine , research design , pathology , sociology , law , social science , political science
The randomized clinical trial is used in hypertension research as a primary mode for evaluating new, promising therapies. Herein, the authors provide an overview of design features of clinical trials, particularly those useful for designing a hypertension therapeutic clinical trial.