Methodological review demonstrates flexible interim monitoring frameworks for long-term clinical trials, suggesting clearer protocol specifications and improved decision-making.
In this paper, we describe decision making procedures as they exist in most clinical trials,review some recently suggested approaches to monitoring and clarify how these methods allow greater flexibility in monitoring and explicit specification of data monitoring methods in the protocol.
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