Pooling, meta-analysis, and the evaluation of drug safety

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The "integrated safety report" of the drug registration files submitted to health authorities usually summarizes the rates of adverse events observed for a new drug, placebo or active control drugs by pooling the safety dat...

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Main Authors: Leizorovicz Alain, Cucherat Michel, Lièvre Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-03-01
Series:Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine
Online Access:http://cvm.controlled-trials.com/content/3/1/6