Individual response to treatment: is it a valid assumption?
- 21 October 2004
- Vol. 329 (7472), 966-968
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7472.966
Abstract
Imagine a trial with 1000 representative patients, chosen from a population of patients with erectile dysfunction, until now resistant to treatment. Each is given the opportunity of trying a new treatment once. Seven hundred succeed in gaining an erection; the other three hundred fail. How should we interpret these results?Keywords
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