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What is a run-in phase?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Andrea Cipriani  and
John R. Geddes
Andrea Cipriani*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona (Italy)
John R. Geddes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. A. Cipriani, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Piazzale L.A. Scuro 10, 37134 Verona (Italy). Fax: +39-045-8027498 Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Run-in periods are frequently used when designing a clinical trial. In this paper we analysed the implications of runin periods for interpreting the results of clinical trials and applying these results in clinical practice. Study reports should indicate in details how run-in periods were carried out.

Keywords

run-inrandomized controlled trialvaliditystatistics
Type
ABC of Methodology
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 21 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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