An independent data and safety monitoring board provided oversight.
A data safety monitoring board provided a single mid-point evaluation; the nominal significance value to adjust for the mid-point analysis, based on the O'Brien-Fleming stopping rules, was 0.0489 (nominal z score 1.97) (EAST software; Cytel, Cambridge, MA).
Setting up a national monitoring board accountable for providing policy-makers and stakeholders with yearly analysis of medical workforce.
Mr. Vallone said that the survey's finding of public support for an oversight board provided the City Council and Mr. Giuliani with an opportunity to create a city-run monitor before the federal government appointed its own.
The institutional review board provided study approval.
The community advisory board provided oversight and advice.
The board provided expertise in a sporadic, fragmentary fashion.
Cases will be reported to an independent data safety monitoring board and the company providing the trial capsules, and related information will be shared with them.
Importantly, an independent safety monitoring board (ISMB) comprising New Zealand and international members provided oversight of the safety monitoring program and reviewed all safety findings.
"In some ways it's a help to have a monitoring board say, 'No, I want more done.' It can provide some political impetus".
