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Open Access 01.12.2015 | Oral presentation

“You have to keep your nerve on a DMC.” Challenges for data monitoring committees in neonatal intensive care trials: qualitative accounts from the bracelet study

verfasst von: Claire Snowdon, Diana Elbourne, Peter Brocklehurst, Martin Ward Platt, Robert Tasker

Erschienen in: Trials | Sonderheft 2/2015

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Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs) are essential to the good conduct of many trials. Typically they comprise a small expert group which monitors safety, efficacy, progress and early outcome data as trials recruit. DMCs can recommend protocol revisions and early stopping of a trial. As DMC meetings usually consider unblinded interim data confidentially, they are seldom exposed to research scrutiny. An important exception was case studies presented in the DAMOCLES project. …
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Titel
“You have to keep your nerve on a DMC.” Challenges for data monitoring committees in neonatal intensive care trials: qualitative accounts from the bracelet study
verfasst von
Claire Snowdon
Diana Elbourne
Peter Brocklehurst
Martin Ward Platt
Robert Tasker
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Trials / Ausgabe Sonderheft 2/2015
Elektronische ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-16-S2-O38

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