Erschienen in:
01.04.2007 | Letter to the Editors
Small trials focusing on surrogate end points may be uninformative
verfasst von:
Harri Hemilä
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Applied Physiology
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Ausgabe 6/2007
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Excerpt
Experts of controlled clinical trials argue that conclusions about the effects of medical interventions should be based on clinically relevant outcomes and not on the surrogates such as laboratory measurements. There are several examples in which the effect on a clinically relevant outcome considerably diverged from the effect on a surrogate end point (Fleming and DeMets
1996; Rothwell
2005). In this respect, the recent paper by Davison and Gleeson (
2006) is somewhat problematic. …