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. 2023 Jul 31.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.14111. Online ahead of print.

Futility in Clinical Trials

Barbara Wendelberger  1 , Roger J Lewis  1   2   3
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Futility in Clinical Trials

Barbara Wendelberger et al. JAMA. .
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This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses the early stopping of clinical trials for futility due to lack of evidence supporting the desired benefit, evidence of harm, or practical issues that make successful completion unlikely.

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