Strategy for intention to treat analysis in randomised trials with missing outcome data.

White, Ian R; Horton, Nicholas J; Carpenter, James; Pocock, Stuart J · BMJ · 2011

rct · Level II

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Abstract

Loss to follow-up is often hard to avoid in randomised trials. This article suggests a framework for intention to treat analysis that depends on making plausible assumptions about the missing data and including all participants in sensitivity analyses

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