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Subgroup analysis: application to individual patient decisions
Author(s) -
Simes R John,
Gebski Val J,
Keech Anthony C
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06027.x
Subject(s) - clinical trial , library science , citation , medicine , family medicine , computer science
of effectiveness oftreatments as an average for a group of patients, yet, inclinical medicine, we usually wish to apply these results toindividuals. Can we simply apply the overall trial result foreach patient, or can the result be tailored to individualpatients in some way?Consider a hypothetical example: a randomised trialcomparing treatments A and B shows that treatment A ismore effective than B among men (