Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority

Non-inferiority trials test whether a new product is not unacceptably worse than a product already in use. This paper introduces concepts related to non-inferiority, and discusses the regulatory views of both the European Medicines Agency and the United States Food and Drug Administration.

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Main Authors: Schumi, Jennifer, Wittes, Janet T
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113981/
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spelling pubmed-31139812011-06-14 Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority Schumi, Jennifer Wittes, Janet T Review Non-inferiority trials test whether a new product is not unacceptably worse than a product already in use. This paper introduces concepts related to non-inferiority, and discusses the regulatory views of both the European Medicines Agency and the United States Food and Drug Administration. BioMed Central 2011-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3113981/ /pubmed/21539749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-106 Text en Copyright ©2011 Schumi and Wittes; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Schumi, Jennifer
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Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
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title Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
title_short Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
title_full Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
title_fullStr Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
title_full_unstemmed Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
title_sort through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
description Non-inferiority trials test whether a new product is not unacceptably worse than a product already in use. This paper introduces concepts related to non-inferiority, and discusses the regulatory views of both the European Medicines Agency and the United States Food and Drug Administration.
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113981/
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