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  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trials
  • Health Economics

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  • Missing observations are prevalent in cluster randomized trials, particularly when modeling bivariate outcomes.
  • This issue is compounded as the proportion of complete cases often diminishes significantly compared to cases with at least one fully observed outcome.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate and contrast various methods for handling missing data in cluster randomized trials.
  • Specifically, to assess their performance in a cost-effectiveness analysis of an exercise intervention for care home residents.

Main Methods:

  • Compared complete case analysis, single-level multiple imputation, fixed-effects multiple imputation, and multilevel multiple imputation.
  • Conducted a simulation study on bivariate continuous outcomes, assessing confidence interval coverage and empirical bias under missing-at-random clustered data scenarios.

Main Results:

  • Multiple imputation methods yielded estimators with negligible bias across various missing data mechanisms.
  • Complete case analysis produced biased treatment effect estimates when missingness was associated with the randomized treatment arm.
  • Fixed-effects multiple imputation resulted in excessive confidence interval coverage, while single-level imputation led to inadequate coverage.

Conclusions:

  • Multilevel multiple imputation demonstrated robust performance, providing approximately 95% confidence interval coverage.
  • This method is recommended for handling missing bivariate outcomes in cluster randomized trials, offering a balance between bias reduction and accurate uncertainty estimation.