Petroff David, Bacak Miroslav, Dagres Nikolaos, Dilk Patrick, Wachter Rolf
Clinical Trial Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, Germany.
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany.
Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2024 Nov 26;42:101393. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101393. eCollection 2024 Dec.
Blinding is an essential part of many randomized controlled trials. However, its quality is usually not checked, and when it is, common measures are the James index and/or the Bang index. In the present paper we discuss these two indices, providing examples demonstrating their considerable weaknesses and limitations, and propose an alternative method for measuring blinding. We argue that this new approach has a number of advantages. We also provide an R-package for computing our blinding index.
盲法是许多随机对照试验的重要组成部分。然而,其质量通常未经检查,即便进行检查,常用的指标是詹姆斯指数和/或邦指数。在本文中,我们讨论这两个指数,给出示例说明它们存在的显著弱点和局限性,并提出一种测量盲法的替代方法。我们认为这种新方法有诸多优点。我们还提供了一个用于计算我们的盲法指数的R包。