April 28, 2014Canadian Medical Association Journal110 citationsOpen Access
Randomized trials with missing outcome data: how to analyze and what to report
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Abstract
The gold-standard study design to evaluate the effects of medical treatment is the randomized trial. Assignment to treatment groups is a random process, and baseline differences in prognostic factors are due to chance. Consequently, at baseline, both groups are expected to be statistically