For the trial, we will compare baseline characteristics of the allocated groups to ensure the adequacy of randomisation (including duration of visual loss).
A sealed envelope procedure was applied by the first author to allocated groups to one of the two conditions.
The allocated group of each patient was registered and concealed up to the end of the study period and revealed only after final data analysis.
Instead of solving a centralized global optimization problem, the authors proposed a distributed hierarchical approach where the mesh router allocates groups of subcarriers to the mesh clients, and each mesh client allocates transmit power among its subcarriers to each of its outgoing links.
The primary analyses involved regression models comparing the allocated groups in respect of outcomes at follow-up, adjusting for baseline scores as covariates.
Data were analysed on an intention to treat basis, with patients analysed in their allocated groups regardless of attendance for treatment.
This discordance is probably a result of the small number of allocated groups and the relatively large number of unspecified NSCLC tumors in the present study.
Participants were informed of their allocated group by a member of our research team once their baseline measurements were completed.
Patients will be automatically informed of their allocated group via the internet through the intervention website.
Participants were analysed on an intention to treat basis that is, according to their allocated group, irrespective of intervention received.
Participants switch to the other allocated group immediately after completion of study period 1.
