intention-to-treat

American  

Also intent-to-treat

adjective

1. relating to a method of analysis in randomized clinical trials that includes the data from all patients originally enrolled in a treatment study, whether or not they completed the treatment or did so according to all protocols for the experiment. For purposes of balance, it is usually paired with an analysis of data from only those patients who completed the trial in accordance with all protocols (per-protocol analysis).

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