What is the prior probability of a proposed new treatment being superior to established treatments?
- 4 January 1997
- Vol. 314 (7073) , 74
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7073.74a
Abstract
Editor–Terence Stephenson and David A Walker ask whether parents and children who are considering participating in a clinical trial of a new treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia should be made aware that “for the past decade the new experimental treatments [studied in randomised trials] have given better outcomes.”1 In other words, hunches based on non-randomised evidence about which developments …Keywords
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