Beyond CONSORT: need for improved reporting standards for clinical trials. Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials.
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Summary
There is no point in randomizing persons to treatment if the assignment is ameliorated or ignored in the analysis, and there are no withdrawals (fifth tier of boxes) from trials after randomization under the intention-to-treat analysis construct.
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- article
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- 1998-05-13
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- 70
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Keywords
Medicine, Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials, Clinical trial, Medical physics, Alternative medicine
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