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Last week I discussed composite endpoints and how while they can be useful, they can also be fraught with difficulty. The same descriptors could equally be applied to #SurrogateOutcomes in clinical trials 1/9
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A #SurrogateOutcome is a substitute measure (eg blood pressure) that one might use to stand in for the real outcome of interest (eg stroke) when the real outcomes of interest may take a very long time to measure - to allow trials to be completed more quickly & efficiently 2/9
Surrogate outcomes can take many forms and may be histological, physiological, radiological etc … biomarkers that predict events 3/9
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