Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/allergy.2.019
Monitoring clinical trials in infectious diseases
David L DeMets1,*, Thomas R Fleming2, Susan S Ellenberg3
- 1University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Corresponding Author
David L DeMets, PhD, demets@biostat.wisc.edu
Received Date: March 27, 2021
Accepted Date: May 12, 2021
DeMets DL, Fleming TR, Ellenberg SS. Monitoring clinical trialsin infectious diseases. J Allergy InfectDis 2021; 2(1):29-32.
Copyright: © 2021 DeMets DL, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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