Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study
Silja H. Overgaard,
Caroline M. Moos,
John P. A. Ioannidis
et al.
Abstract:The objective of this meta‐epidemiological study was to explore the impact of attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in randomised trials of chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) treated with biological and targeted synthetic disease‐modifying drugs. We sampled trials from Cochrane reviews. Attrition rates and primary endpoint results were retrieved from trial publications; Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated from the odds of withdrawing in the experimental intervention compared to the control comparison gr… Show more
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