Abstract

TORREGROZA-DIAZGRANADOS, Eduardo. Clinical interpretation of the clinical experiments in cancer. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2005, vol.20, n.4, pp.210-221. ISSN 2011-7582.

The evaluation of the beneficial effects of a particular therapy is mandatory before deciding on a new treatment modality. Clinicians that utilize the results of clinical trials to guide their practice need reliable tools for the evaluation of the clinical relevance of statistically significant results prior to the introduction of new cancer therapies. The purpose of this review is to propose the confidence intervals as useful tools to determine the clinical relevance of a treatment modality. The confidence interval attenuates the interpretation of clinical experiments solely on the basis of statistical criteria.

Keywords : clinical significance; p value; confidence interval.

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