Transcription of Sample Size Calculations for Randomized Controlled Trials
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Sample size Calculations for Randomized Controlled TrialsJanet WittesINTRODUCTIONMost informed consent documents for Randomized con-trolled Trials implicitly or explicitly promise the prospectiveparticipant that the trial has a reasonable chance of answer-ing a medically important question. The medical literature,however, is replete with descriptions of Trials that providedequivocal answers to the questions they addressed. Papersdescribing the results of such studies may clearly imply that thetrial required a much larger Sample size to adequately addressthe questions it posed.
The number of participants in a randomized controlled trial can vary over several orders of magnitude. Rather than choose an arbitrary sample size, an investigator should allow both the variability of response to therapy and the assumed degree of effectiveness of therapy to drive the number of people to be studied in order to answer a scien-
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