Only ITT analysis provides information about the  actual effects of a health policy - Author response

We thank Bruun Lassen et  al for their interest in our Inter99 study. Bruun Lassen has performed a CACE analysis, which compares mortality among actual participants of the intervention group with a hypothesized group of participants in the control group in the Inter99 study [1]. The authors suggest that there might be a be neficial effect of the Inter99 study on total mortality and argue that CACE analyses might be a more realistic approach to evaluate the effect of health checks.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - November 9, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Anne Mette Bender, Charlotta Pisinger, Torben J ørgensen Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research