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  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trials
  • Epidemiology

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  • Real-world external controls are increasingly used in clinical trials, especially for rare diseases.
  • Directly using external controls can introduce significant bias if they are not comparable to trial data.
  • Existing methods struggle to address unknown biases from incomparable external controls.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel data-adaptive integrative framework to prevent unknown biases from real-world external controls.
  • To develop a method that achieves semiparametric efficiency with comparable controls and selective borrowing for incomparable controls.
  • To provide statistical guarantees for the proposed method, including consistency, asymptotic distribution, and inference.

Main Methods:

  • A data-adaptive framework employing bias penalization to dynamically select a comparable subset of external controls.
  • Simultaneous achievement of semiparametric efficiency bounds and mitigation of bias from incomparable controls.
  • Establishment of statistical guarantees: consistency, asymptotic distribution, Type-I error control, and power.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method demonstrates improved performance compared to trial-only estimators across various bias scenarios.
  • Validated through extensive simulations and two real-world data applications.
  • Successfully mitigates the impact of incomparable external controls while leveraging comparable ones.

Conclusions:

  • The data-adaptive integrative framework effectively prevents unknown biases in external controls for randomized trials.
  • The method offers a robust solution for utilizing real-world data, enhancing treatment effect estimation.
  • Statistical guarantees and empirical results support the proposed approach for improving clinical trial design and analysis.