Two-stage estimation to adjust for treatment switching in randomised trials: a simulation study investigating the use of inverse probability weighting instead of re-censoring

Abstract Background Treatment switching is common in randomised trials of oncology treatments, with control group patients switching onto the experimental treatment during follow-up. This distorts an intention-to-treat comparison of the treatments under investigation. Two-stage estimation (TSE) can...

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Principais autores: N. R. Latimer, K. R. Abrams, U. Siebert
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: BMC 2019-03-01
coleção:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Acesso em linha:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-019-0709-9