Primary Recipient

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Amount

$764,113.00

Award Date

9/27/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Cluster randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and observational studies are each vulnerable to treatment group imbalance at baseline. This problem is seen in designs such as these that do not use patient-level randomization. Imbalance, in turn, compromises tr