TY - JOUR AU - Dregan, Alex AU - van Staa, Tjeerd AU - Mcdermott, Lisa AU - McCann, Gerard AU - Ashworth, Mark AU - Charlton, Judith AU - Wolfe, Charles AU - Rudd, Anthony AU - Yardley, Lucy AU - Gulliford, Martin AU - eCRT Research Team PY - 2012 DA - 2012/10/03 TI - Cluster randomized trial in the general practice research database: 2. Secondary prevention after first stroke (eCRT study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial JO - Trials SP - 181 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate methods for conducting pragmatic cluster randomized trials in a primary care electronic database. The proposal describes one application, in a less frequent chronic condition of public health importance, secondary prevention of stroke. A related protocol in antibiotic prescribing was reported previously. SN - 1745-6215 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-181 DO - 10.1186/1745-6215-13-181 ID - Dregan2012 ER -