Section Special Topics in Trial Design considers special topics for study design, including interim monitoring, alpha spending, adaptive designs, equivalence and noninferiority trials, and sample size.
The acceptance of the concept among patients was high: 94% of the patients reported that AGnES-practice assistants can conduct home visits and address special topics (for example falls prevention, geriatric assessment, and telemedicine [ 13, 14]) and the GP conducts only home visits in cases of medical urgency [ 15].
Furthermore, it would be of great importance to involve the patient organizations, e.g. for getting help in recruiting the right experts for special topics or for combining quality training with conferences.
As our next step, we will develop and offer special topics courses for juniors and seniors in Biostatistics and Mathematical Biology with a view to incorporating them as cross-listed courses into the regular curriculum.
These subsets could be very effective for studies on a special topic.
So do 15 sidebars, each dedicated to a special topic.
When I was in elementary school I had to choose a special research topic for a class.
The special focus topic for 2010 will be "Drug Design/Drug Discovery".
The special focus topic for 2009 will be 'The Molecular Biology and Signaling of Ageing' The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
In the last two sections, several special topics and related approaches for assessing causal effects are reviewed.
