临床试验的自适应序列设计的系统方法:使用模拟来选择具有所需操作特征的设计
1Innovatio Statistics, Inc, Bridgewater, NJ, USA.
Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics
|May 30, 2024
概括
高水平的第三阶段试验失败率可能来自错误的样本大小. 具有样本大小重新估计 (SSR) 的自适应序列设计 (ASD) 可以通过模拟优化功率和样本大小来减轻这一问题.
科学领域:
- 临床试验 临床试验
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 药学研究 药学研究
背景情况:
- 第三阶段临床试验的失败率很高,通常与样本大小计算不足有关.
- 影响大小估计的不确定性对样本大小的确定和试验的成功产生了重大影响.
- 适应序列设计 (ASD) 提供了一种灵活的方法,包括样本大小重新估计 (SSR) 来解决这些不确定性.
研究的目的:
- 引入一个系统的策略来研究适应性设计的操作特性.
- 在临床试验中使用自适应方法优化无条件功率和平均样本大小.
- 为试验提供一个具有成本效益的方法,在试验中,效应大小处于预先确定范围之内.
主要方法:
- 使用代模拟来彻底检查各种自适应设计的操作特性.
- 分析关键因素的影响:计划的样本大小,中间分析频率和边界/规则选择.
- 实施基于模拟的全面策略,用于设计评估和优化.
主要成果:
- 展示了系统模拟如何揭示影响ASD操作特征的因素的复杂相互作用.
- 确定最佳的ASD参数,以实现所需的无条件功率和有效的平均样本大小.
- 提供了一个选择适应性设计的框架,以平衡统计严谨性和资源效率.
结论:
- 一个系统的,模拟驱动的策略有效地调查和优化自适应序列设计.
- 这种方法有助于减轻与第三阶段试验中不确定的效果大小相关的风险.
- 通过精心选择的自适应设计,可以实现充足的功率和具有成本效益的样本大小.
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