[Intent to treat].
Intent to treat methodology consists of keeping all patients included, in their initial group in the case of randomization, to perform final analysis of a study. This attitude is justified methodologically, as it preserves the validity of the statistical rationale, and clinically, as it more closely reproduces real prescribing conditions. In the light of a classical example, this review illustrates several clinical situations raising the problem of intent to treat.
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Clinique Urologique, Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France. pglemain@chu-nantes.fr
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection
L'intention de traiter.