N-of-1 crossover
Random allocation for treatment comparisons can be used to compare different treatments given at different times in random order to the same patient.
JLL Essay
2.2 The need to compare like-with-like in treatment comparisons Topics
- Individual patient data
- Pre-clinical
- Fair tests of treatments
- The need to address treatment uncertainties
- Treatment comparisons are essential
- Treatment comparisons must be fair
- Biases
- Design bias
- Allocation bias
- Co-intervention bias
- Observer bias
- Analysis bias
- Biases in judging unanticipated possible effects
- Reporting bias
- Biases in systematic reviews
- Researcher/sponsor bias and fraud
- The play of chance
- Bringing it all together for the benefit of patients and the public