At a time when society is becoming more accepting of people shaking the identity they were allocated, name changes can be a form of escapism.
Authors specifically state that the identity of the allocated treatment arm was not masked to at least one of the following: patient and family, medical caregiver, or relevant trial personnel involved in measuring outcomes.
Participants chose their identity or were allocated pseudonyms.
Unblinding of treatment only takes place if the identity of the allocated study medication was necessary for patient safety and care.
Each participant will be assigned a participant study identity code number, allocated at randomisation, for use on CRFs, other trial documents and the electronic database.
The blinding was to be broken only in the event of a serious adverse event that the investigator thought could not be adequately treated without knowing the identity of the allocated study treatment.
Given the rapid reappearance of symptoms upon LDX withdrawal, with a median time to treatment failure of 17.0 days (95 % CI 12.0, 22.0) in the placebo group [ 9], it is possible that some patients or parents may have drawn their own conclusions about the identity of the allocated randomized treatment, and that this may have affected scores on the parent-rated secondary efficacy measures [ 13].
The obtained sequences were clustered into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using a 97 and 95% identity threshold and phylogenetically allocated down to the phylum, class and genus level with the MOTHUR program (http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Main_Page) (Wang et al. 2007).
Three members of the Endpoint Adjudication Committee who were blinded for patient identity, treating physician, and allocated treatment coded the fatal events independently according to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases.
Like other identities, Cornish has an allocated census code, (06), the same as for 2001, which applied and was counted throughout Britain.
