"You have to keep your nerve on a DMC." Challenges for Data Monitoring Committees in neonatal intensive care trials: Qualitative accounts from the BRACELET Study

• Claire Snowdon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Claire.snowdon@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9133-5476

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• Peter Brocklehurst ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Brocklehurst, Robert C. Tasker, Martin Ward Platt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Robert C. Tasker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Brocklehurst, Robert C. Tasker, Martin Ward Platt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Neurology and Anesthesia (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Martin Ward Platt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Brocklehurst, Robert C. Tasker, Martin Ward Platt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Newcastle Neonatal Service, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Diana Elbourne

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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