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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
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Sonderheft 2/2015
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Excerpt
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. …