在这篇评论中,我们敦促数据监测委员会(DMC)作为一个集体运作,也就是说,作为一个整体。这样做,其建议应通过协商一致的发展过程来提出,不是通过成员的投票。其非公开会议的摘要说明,也就是说,它的分钟,应报告DMC的建议,如有必要,这些建议的理由;它不应该将意见归因于个别成员。重要的是,DMC会议的会议记录不应电子记录。
In this commentary, we urge that a Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) should operate as a collective, that is, as a unitary whole. In so doing, its recommendations should emerge through a consensus development process, not through a vote of the members. The summary notes of its closed session, that is, its
minutes, should report the recommendations of the DMC and, if necessary, the justification for those recommendations; it should not attribute opinions to individual members. Importantly, the proceedings of the DMC meetings should not be electronically recorded.