Once a protocol has been established and initiated, it will be applied to all patients unless independent data monitoring reveals a highly significant (larger than expected) difference between groups, futility (no hope of detecting a difference between interventions in the number of patients recruited in the study) or safety issues, all of which would warrant termination of the study for ethical reasons.
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Bedside to bench: a look at experimental research with a clinical trial checklist.
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