Control Event Rate
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A Control Event Rate is the proportion of patients responding to placebo or other control treatment.
- AKA: CER.
- Example(s)
- If in a control group with 25 patients the event being studied is observed in 15 of those patients, then the CER= 15/25 = 0.60.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Probability, Placebo, Experimental Event Rate, Number Needed-to-Treat, Relative Risk Reduction, Absolute Risk Reduction.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Experimental_event_rate#/Control_event_rate Retrieved 2016-07-24
- The control event rate (CER) is identical to the experimental event rate except that is measured within the scientific control group of an experiment.