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Comment by adamredwoods

3 years ago

Because the trials sometimes take on people with very little time left.

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Retric  3 years ago

That’s the estimate for number of people killed by the treatment not the number of people who died in total.

You should be careful not to exclude trials cancelled early when considering how risky trials are.

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