Individual response to treatment: is it a valid assumption?

AUTOR(ES)

Senn, Stephen

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

Most drug trials assume that patients respond consistently to treatment, but the assumption is rarely tested. If patients vary randomly in their response to a drug rather than some patients never responding, searches for a genetic basis for non-response are futile

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