| Literature DB >> 32580702 |
Kim May Lee1, James Wason2,3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Platform trials allow adding new experimental treatments to an on-going trial. This feature is attractive to practitioners due to improved efficiency. Nevertheless, the operating characteristics of a trial that adds arms have not been well-studied. One controversy is whether just the concurrent control data (i.e. of patients who are recruited after a new arm is added) should be used in the analysis of the newly added treatment(s), or all control data (i.e. non-concurrent and concurrent).Entities:
Keywords: Adding arms; Concurrent/ non-concurrent control; Platform trials
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32580702 PMCID: PMC7315495 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-020-01043-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Med Res Methodol ISSN: 1471-2288 Impact factor: 4.615
Fig. 2The power of rejecting H02 in the presence of no trend or a linear drift with a magnitude of λ>0 standard deviation (row-wise); x-axis indicates the value of n22 and the timing of adding the new arm
Fig. 3The power of rejecting H02 in the presence of no trend or a step trend with a magnitude of λ>0 standard deviation (row-wise); x-axis indicates the value of n22 and the timing of adding the new arm
Fig. 1Left: power curves when the individual Z-test (red lines) and WLS (blue lines) are used respectively for testing H02, both using stage two control responses. Right: reduction in when stage one control responses is used relative to not using stage one control responses. Line types correspond to different values of n22 when the new arm is added to the on-going trial. The timing of adding the new arm is reflected by n01/n0 on the x-axis
The maximum (median) absolute bias of the estimated difference in mean responses of the newly added treatment and the control arm when there is a trend. Values with -4 order of magnitude are set to zero
| Linear trend | ||||||
| 2% | 0.007 (0.005) | 0 (0) | 0.001 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| 4% | 0.015 (0.010) | 0 (0) | 0.001 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| 6% | 0.022 (0.015) | 0 (0) | 0.001 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| 8% | 0.030 (0.020) | 0 (0) | 0.001 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Step trend | ||||||
| 2% | 0.015 (0.010) | 0 (0) | 0.007 (0.004) | 0 (0) | 0.010 (0.005) | 0 (0) |
| 4% | 0.030 (0.020) | 0 (0) | 0.015 (0.008) | 0 (0) | 0.019 (0.010) | 0 (0) |
| 6% | 0.045 (0.030) | 0 (0) | 0.023 (0.012) | 0 (0) | 0.029 (0.015) | 0 (0) |
| 8% | 0.060 (0.040) | 0 (0) | 0.031 (0.016) | 0 (0) | 0.038 (0.019) | 0 (0) |
Fig. 4The type one error rate of rejecting H02 in the presence of a linear trend with a magnitude of λ>0 standard deviation (row-wise); x-axis indicates the value of n22 and the timing of adding the new arm
Fig. 5The type one error rate of rejecting H02 in the presence of a step trend with a magnitude of λ>0 standard deviation (row-wise); x-axis indicates the value of n22 and the timing of adding the new arm
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