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Chao Wang1, Caroline Strasinger2, Meiyu Shen3
1Office of Biostatistics, Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. Chao.Wang@fda.hhs.gov.
Abstract:
Proper adhesion plays a critical role in maintaining a consistent, efficacious, and safe drug delivery profile for transdermal and topical delivery systems (TDS). As such, in vivo skin adhesion studies are recommended by regulatory agencies to support the approval of TDS in new drug applications (NDAs). A draft guidance for industry by the US Food and Drug Administration outlines a non-inferiority comparison between a test product and its reference product for generic TDS in abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs). However, the statistical method is not applicable for evaluating adhesion of TDS for NDAs, because no reference product exists. In this article, we explore an alternative primary endpoint and a one-sided binomial test to evaluate in vivo adhesion of TDS in NDAs. Statistical considerations related to the proposed approach are discussed. To understand its potential use, the proposed approach is applied to data sets of in vivo adhesion studies from selected NDAs and ANDAs.
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