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  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial Methodology
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Small patient populations in clinical trials, particularly for rare or pediatric diseases, pose significant challenges for statistical analysis.
  • Traditional methods struggle to effectively incorporate external control data due to heterogeneity between studies.
  • Composite endpoints combining different data types (continuous and time-to-event) require specialized analytical approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel propensity score (PS)-based stratified win ratio method for analyzing clinical trial data with external control groups.
  • To enhance the statistical power of win ratio analysis when dealing with heterogeneous patient populations and limited sample sizes.
  • To provide a robust framework for borrowing external data in the presence of treatment effect heterogeneity.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a propensity score (PS)-based stratified win ratio analysis incorporating external control data.
  • Application of PS stratification to adjust for baseline covariate differences between current and external study populations.
  • Implementation of down-weighting based on the overlapping coefficient of PS distributions to mitigate patient bias.
  • Utilizing Mantel-Haenszel (MH)-type weights for enhanced statistical power in simulations.

Main Results:

  • Simulations demonstrated significant improvements in statistical power for detecting treatment effects on composite endpoints compared to nonborrowing and simple pooling methods.
  • The PS-based stratified win ratio method effectively accounted for heterogeneity between current and external study data.
  • Mantel-Haenszel (MH)-type weights yielded the highest statistical power in the simulation scenarios.
  • The method was successfully applied to an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) study, demonstrating its practical utility.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed propensity score (PS)-based stratified win ratio method offers a rigorous and statistically powerful approach for utilizing external control data in clinical trials with small patient populations.
  • This method is particularly valuable for rare diseases, pediatric studies, and situations requiring the analysis of composite endpoints.
  • The framework provides a robust solution for borrowing external data while addressing patient bias and heterogeneity, enhancing the reliability of trial findings.