[Meta] the FLOW rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
Putting this to the board: the FLOW rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Why comparing across trials almost never works, with the specific failure modes. Different populations: an obesity programme and a diabetes programme enrol different people with different baseline characteristics. Different…
Open-label extensions lose their randomisation. Anybody still enrolled at week 104 is a selected group and the numbers describe that group.
Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight.
a mean is not a promise
intention to treat versus completers changes the number substantially
trial populations get support that nobody on this board gets
Correcting myself upthread: I gave the completer figure and labelled it intention-to-treat.