Room for improvement in conducting and reporting non-inferiority randomized controlled trials on drugs: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: A non-inferiority (NI) trial is intended to show that the effect of a new treatment is not worse than the comparator. We conducted a review to identify how NI trials were conducted and reported, and whether the standard requirements from the guidelines were followed. METHODOLOGY AND PRIN...

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Main Authors: Grace Wangge, Olaf H Klungel, Kit C B Roes, Anthonius de Boer, Arno W Hoes, Mirjam J Knol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2965079?pdf=render