Publication
Title
Alternative clinical trial design in neurocritical care
Author
Institution/Organisation
Second Neurocritical Care Res Conf
Abstract
Neurocritical care involves the care of highly complex patients with combinations of physiologic derangements in the brain and in extracranial organs. The level of evidence underpinning treatment recommendations remains low due to a multitude of reasons including an incomplete understanding of the involved physiology; lack of good quality, prospective, standardized data; and the limited success of conventional randomized controlled trials. Comparative effectiveness research can provide alternative perspectives and methods to enhance knowledge and evidence within the field of neurocritical care; these include large international collaborations for generation and maintenance of high quality data, statistical methods that incorporate heterogeneity and individualize outcome prediction, and finally advanced bioinformatics that integrate large amounts of variable-source data into patient-specific phenotypes and trajectories.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Neurocritical care. - Totowa, N.J., 2004, currens
Publication
Totowa : Humana press inc , 2015
ISSN
1541-6933 [print]
1556-0961 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S12028-015-0135-8
Volume/pages
22 :3 (2015) , p. 378-384
ISI
000354196300006
Pubmed ID
25894451
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Research group
Publication type
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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