TY - JOUR T1 - Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 803 LP - 803 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-309200 VL - 100 IS - 8 A2 - Phillips, Bob Y1 - 2015/08/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/8/803.2.abstract N2 - Intention to treatThe principle of an ‘intention to treat’ analysis is that the participants in a randomised trial are analysed in the group to which they were randomised, regardless of what treatment they received. So, in a hypothetical trial of salbutamol versus aminophylline infusion for severe asthma, regardless of what the child has got, they are placed in their … ER -