title: Brief Report: Rethinking Data Collection for HIV Prevention Trials.
abstract: There is a strong push to conduct large-scale randomized controlled study designs in HIV prevention studies. In these randomized controlled studies, the primary research objective is typically to determine the treatment effect based on some biological outcome (eg, HIV infection). But many unused self-reported outcomes are also being collected. We illustrate the extent of this problem using the EXPLORE data as an example.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
authors.forename: Ofer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Harel
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nazzaro
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design