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Data safety and monitoring boards are part of many clinical trials. This Sounding Board article addresses the ethical issues facing board members when they make a decision to stop a clinical trial early or to continue it in the face of evidence that one treatment is more effective than another.
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Slutsky et al. (2004) studied this question.
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