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Jan 6 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Difference Between Intention to Treat and as Treated Analysis

The deviation from a signed group gets complicated and I'll try to keep it simple. But the difference in intention to treat where the analysis is done based on what group a patient is in, regardless of whether he or she gets data signed treatment, should be minimal. Now this came up classically in the Cabana trial of A-fib-oblation versus drugs. There was no difference in outcomes in the two arms, but there were substantial numbers of subjects in Cabana who deviated from their treatment assignment. Some didn't get the ablation and there were a lot of crossovers from drugs to ablation.

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