Bassler, Dirk; Briel, Matthias; Montori, Victor M; Lane, Melanie; Glasziou, Paul; Zhou, Qi; Heels-Ansdell, Diane; Walter, Stephen D.; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Flynn, David N.; Elamin, Mohamed B.; Murad, Mohammad Hassan; Abu Elnour, Nisrin O.; Lampropulos, Julianna F.; Sood, Amit; Mullan, Rebecca J.; Erwin, Patricia J.; Bankhead, Clare R.; Perera, Rafael; Ruiz Culebro, Carolina; You, John J.; Mulla, Sohail M.; Kaur, Jagdeep; Nerenberg, Kara A.; Schünemann, Holger; Cook, Deborah J.; Lutz, Kristina; Ribic, Christine M.; Vale, Noah; Malaga, German; Akl, Elie A.; Ferreira-Gonzalez, Ignacio; Alonso-Coello, Pablo; Urrutia, Gerard; Kunz, Regina; Bucher, Heiner C.; Nordmann, Alain J.; Raatz, Heike; da Silva, Suzana Alves; Tuche, Fabio; Strahm, Brigitte; Djulbegovic, Benjamin; Adhikari, Neill K.J.; Mills, Edward J.; Gwadry-Sridhar, Femida; Kirpalani, Haresh; Soares, Heloisa P.; Karanicolas, Paul J.; Burns, Karen E.A.; Vandvik, Per Olav; Coto-Yglesias, Fernando; Chrispim, Pedro Paulo M.; Ramsay, Tim (2010-03-24)
CONTEXT: Theory and simulation suggest that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) stopped early for benefit (truncated RCTs) systematically overestimate treatment effects for the outcome that precipitated early stopping. ...
