A literature review of the impact of exclusion criteria on generalizability of clinical trial findings to patients with chronic pain

Abstract. The ability of clinical trials to inform the care of chronic pain may be limited if only an unrepresentative subset of patients are allowed to enroll. We summarize and report new insights on published studies that report on how trial exclusions affect the generalizability of their results....

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Main Authors: Vafi Salmasi, Theresa R. Lii, Keith Humphreys, Vinay Reddy, Sean C. Mackey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2022-12-01
Series:PAIN Reports
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001050