In JAMA, Michelle Detry and Roger Lewis explain the “intention-to-treat” (ITT) principle: [I]n a trial in which patients are randomized to receive either treatment A or treatment B, a patient may be randomized to receive treatment A but erroneously receive treatment B, or never receive any treatment
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