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Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology

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The Phase II Futility Clinical Trial Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2006

Bernard Ravina  and
Yuko Palesch
Bernard Ravina
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; Email: Bernard.Ravina@ctcc.rochester.edu
Yuko Palesch
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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Futilityclinical trialsPhase IIhistorical control
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Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 27 - 38
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