Resumen de Lag Time to Benefit for Preventive Therapies

Holly M. Holmes, Lillian Min-, Cynthia M. Boyd

• Dr Lee and colleagues1 discussed using lag time to benefit along with magnitude of benefit when considering preventive therapies in older adults. However, using time-to-benefit information from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) entails a number of challenges that warrant discussion.

  Time-to-benefit information influences decision making for individual older patients in various ways.2 First, the outcome with the shortest time to benefit may not be valued as much by an older person as an incremental improvement in quality of life, which may require more time (or not occur).3