title: Intention-to-treat principle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minn, USA.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Montori
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Guyatt
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015983:Selection Bias