Clinical Trial of Hyposensitisation in Hay Fever: Two Methods of Relating Symptom Scores to Daily Pollen Counts
- 1 August 1984
- Vol. 39 (6), 463-468
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1398-9995.1984.tb01969.x
Abstract
Two methods of relating daily pollen counts to patients' symptom scores in clinical trials of hyposensitisation in hay fever are described. The problems involved in comparing results from different centres and years of a trial are discussed with particular reference to symptoms which are not pollen related. The Normalised Regression method is a powerful technique, but often the Pollen Interval method is preferable on the grounds of simplicity of communication and calculation.Keywords
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