Evaluation of Comparative Treatment Trials
- 11 August 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 304 (6) , 683-684
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1133
Abstract
The evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of treatments should not depend on the statistical effect of treatments on individual measures of outcome (benefits or harms), but rather on the clinical effects of treatments (both benefits and harms) on individual patients who experience both benefits and harms. Such evaluation requires both statistical assessment of the rates of co-occurrence of such benefits and harms and clinical assessment of their combined clinical effects on patients.Keywords
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