Measurement in Clinical Trials

What is it about?

The claim is made that medical statisticians should pay more attention to the measures that are defined to judge the effect of treatments rather than leaving this activity entirely as the province of their physician colleagues.

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Why is it important?

Many habits of measurement in clinical trials, for example dichotomising continuous measurements or classifying patients as responders or non-responders are not only inefficient but potentially misleading.