Electronic Health Records for Intervention Research: A Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care (eCRT Study)
The Annals of Family MedicinePublished 1 July 2014Open access
Martin Gulliford, Tjeerd van Staa, Alex Dregan, Lisa McDermott, Gerry P McCann, Mark Ashworth
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Cluster randomized trials may be implemented efficiently in large samples from routine care settings by using primary care electronic health records and future studies should develop and test multicomponent methods for remotely delivered intervention.
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Cluster randomized trials may be implemented efficiently in large samples from routine care settings by using primary care electronic health records. Future studies should develop and test multicomponent methods for remotely delivered intervention.
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