From: A comparison of approaches for adjudicating outcomes in clinical trials
Term | Definition |
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Site assessor | An assessor based at a local site or hospital, who may or may not be involved in the patient’s care |
Central assessor | An assessor who is based centrally, not at any local site or hospital, and is not involved in the patient’s care |
Adjudication | The process of classifying the outcome as an event or a non-event |
Misclassification | Incorrectly classifying the outcome |
False-positive | Incorrectly classifying the outcome as an event when the true outcome is a non-event (the false-positive rate is denoted φ) |
False-negative | Incorrectly classifying the outcome as a non-event when the true outcome is an event (the false-negative rate is denoted θ) |