Arthritis Research & Therapy

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Discontinuation rates in clinical trials in musculoskeletal pain: meta-analysis from etoricoxib clinical trial reports

R Andrew Moore*, Sheena Derry and Henry J McQuay

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Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, The Churchill, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK

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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2008, 10:R53 doi:10.1186/ar2422

Published: 8 May 2008

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Additional file 1:

Details of the randomized trials included in the review. The file contains information on each included study, with reference, quality score, design, treatments, main results and comments.

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Discontinuation rates over 12 weeks because of lack of efficacy in trials conducted over 4 to 12 weeks. The file contains information on percentage of patients not discontinued because of lack of efficacy for weeks 1 to 12, by treatment.

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Additional file 3:

Discontinuation rates over 12 weeks because of adverse events in trials conducted over 4 to 12 weeks. The file contains information on percentage of patients not discontinued because of adverse events for weeks 1 to 12, by treatment.

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Additional file 4:

Comparison between meta-analyses of etoricoxib, valdecoxib, and celecoxib trials. The file contains information on percentage of patients discontinued by end of trial in meta-analyses of etoricoxib, valdecoxib, and celecoxib trials.

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