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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial Design
  • Pharmaceutical Research

Background:

  • Platform trials evaluate multiple drugs for one disease, offering flexibility and efficiency, especially during pandemics.
  • Non-concurrent controls (NCCs) in platform trials can introduce bias and increase Type I error due to temporal shifts.
  • Existing methods struggle to effectively incorporate NCC data while accounting for temporal variations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a new Bayesian power prior method for incorporating non-concurrent control data in platform trials with binary outcomes.
  • To address temporal shifts by adaptively borrowing information from NCCs using a data-driven similarity index.
  • To evaluate the proposed method's performance against existing approaches in various temporal shift scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Bayesian power prior incorporating a data-driven similarity index to adjust information borrowing from NCCs.
  • Simulated extensive scenarios with varying temporal shifts to assess operating characteristics.
  • Compared the proposed method with seven alternative approaches, including frequentist and other Bayesian methods.

Main Results:

  • The proposed Bayesian power prior method achieved a favorable balance between Type I error control and statistical power across diverse temporal shift scenarios.
  • It maintained Type I error rates below 10% and avoided overborrowing issues present in more aggressive methods.
  • The method demonstrated practical utility when applied to a COVID-19 platform trial dataset.

Conclusions:

  • The novel Bayesian power prior method effectively incorporates NCC data in platform trials, mitigating bias from temporal shifts.
  • This approach offers a robust solution for improving the efficiency and reliability of drug evaluation in adaptive trial designs.
  • The method shows promise for application in real-world clinical trials, including those for infectious diseases like COVID-19.