title: [Intent to treat].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Urologique, Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France. pglemain@chu-nantes.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Glemain
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection
vernacular_title: L'intention de traiter.