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Sponsors Should Plan Ahead to Deal With Missing Data

October 1, 2010
To avoid problems with missing data in clinical trials, sponsors should identify, before beginning a trial, methods to account for planning, conducting or analyzing results of a confirmatory study, according to a final guideline recently released by the European Medicines Agency. The guideline, effective Jan. 1, focuses on data missing due to patients withdrawing from a trial and provides frameworks for handling the problem.
Clinical Trials Advisor