The data monitoring experience in the MOXCON trial
Author(s) -
S J Pocock,
Lars Wilhelmsen,
Kenneth Dickstein,
G. E. Francis,
Janet Wittes
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.09.015
Subject(s) - medicine , interim analysis , data monitoring committee , interim , placebo , randomized controlled trial , clinical endpoint , heart failure , moxonidine , clinical trial , emergency medicine , alternative medicine , receptor , archaeology , pathology , history , agonist
This article describes a challenging data monitoring experience that occurred in a major international randomized placebo-controlled trial in patients with heart failure, in which the accumulating interim data showed an excess of deaths on the active treatment.
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