Sentence examples for interpretation of a trial from inspiring English sources

When performed correctly, blinding is intended to minimise the occurrence of conscious and unconscious bias in the conduct and interpretation of a trial until all such opportunities for bias have passed.

Furthermore, small variations in the criteria for these end points may profoundly affect the interpretation of a trial's success or failure [ 42].

The extent to which the treatment effect varies across clusters can have a major impact on the interpretation of a trial's results; however, there is often not enough information to obtain a precise estimate of the clustering effect, since most trials are not powered to detect this variability [ 7].

We have argued that such a framework for the design, analysis and interpretation of a randomised trial in the light of external evidence is particularly useful in situations such as trials in rare cancers.

The choice of incision is related to the surgeon's preference and experience, a factor that may make interpretation of a clinical trial difficult.

Therefore, exact knowledge about which change of the TQ is clinically relevant is critical, both for the design and interpretation of a clinical trial as well as for rational decision-making in clinical management of tinnitus patients.

Unlike a superiority trial, where the treatment effect is the primary parameter of interest, the interpretation of a non-inferiority trial's results depends on the location of the CI for the effect of the experimental treatment relative to the margin of non-inferiority and a null effect.

We aimed to explore practical challenges of using the NNT to report a patient-reported continuous outcome in a way that is clear to end-users and to explore its implications on the interpretation of a previously reported trial.

The tradeoffs between these two approaches have important implications for the interpretation of the results of a trial.

The 31% objective response rate observed in the Lønning et al. trial with DES [ 5] is thus remarkable and encouraging even considering all the cautionary caveats regarding interpretation of a small phase II trial.

To explore clinical heterogeneity of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), viewed as a major obstacle to the interpretation of therapeutic trials A retrospective single institution long-term follow-up study was carried out in DMD patients with both complete lack of muscle dystrophin and genotyping.