Synergy Area With FDR ‐Controlled Evaluation ( SAFE ) to Robustly Assess Safety Profile in Clinical Trials

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Autores principales: Tianyu Zhan, Yabing Mai, Yihua Gu, Thao Doan, Xun Chen
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author Tianyu Zhan
Yabing Mai
Yihua Gu
Thao Doan
Xun Chen
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Yabing Mai
Yihua Gu
Thao Doan
Xun Chen
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Yabing Mai
Yihua Gu
Thao Doan
Xun Chen
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contents Synergy Area With FDR ‐Controlled Evaluation ( SAFE ) to Robustly Assess Safety Profile in Clinical Trials Tianyu Zhan Yabing Mai Yihua Gu Thao Doan Xun Chen Statistics in Medicine ABSTRACT Safety assessment plays a fundamental role in developing a new drug via clinical trials for ethical considerations. Due to complexity, manual review is typically conducted on the totality of data to draw safety conclusions. There are some existing quantitative methods to facilitate or tailor further medical review, with a controlled error rate and integration of clinical knowledge. In addition to those two key aspects, we emphasize the importance of relying on substantial evidence to draw robust conclusions on safety. Motivated by these three important properties, we propose a two‐layer Synergy Area with FDR‐controlled Evaluation (SAFE) structural framework to robustly assess the safety profile in clinical trials. In the first layer of SAFE, we investigate each clinically meaningful Synergy Area (SA) based on compelling evidence. In the next layer, the false discovery rate (FDR) is controlled for potential findings across all SAs. Simulation studies show that SAFE properly controls error rates within and across SAs at the nominal level. We further apply the proposed approach to two case studies based on real data from the Historical Trial Data (HTD) Sharing Initiative of the DataCelerate platform. As compared to some direct methods, SAFE demonstrates an appealing feature of screening out extreme data and reaching solid safety conclusions. It can act as either a building block in another framework, or a platform to incorporate additional components. 10.1002/sim.70592 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
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spellingShingle Synergy Area With FDR ‐Controlled Evaluation ( SAFE ) to Robustly Assess Safety Profile in Clinical Trials
Tianyu Zhan
Yabing Mai
Yihua Gu
Thao Doan
Xun Chen
Statistics in Medicine
Synergy Area With FDR ‐Controlled Evaluation ( SAFE ) to Robustly Assess Safety Profile in Clinical Trials Tianyu Zhan Yabing Mai Yihua Gu Thao Doan Xun Chen Statistics in Medicine ABSTRACT Safety assessment plays a fundamental role in developing a new drug via clinical trials for ethical considerations. Due to complexity, manual review is typically conducted on the totality of data to draw safety conclusions. There are some existing quantitative methods to facilitate or tailor further medical review, with a controlled error rate and integration of clinical knowledge. In addition to those two key aspects, we emphasize the importance of relying on substantial evidence to draw robust conclusions on safety. Motivated by these three important properties, we propose a two‐layer Synergy Area with FDR‐controlled Evaluation (SAFE) structural framework to robustly assess the safety profile in clinical trials. In the first layer of SAFE, we investigate each clinically meaningful Synergy Area (SA) based on compelling evidence. In the next layer, the false discovery rate (FDR) is controlled for potential findings across all SAs. Simulation studies show that SAFE properly controls error rates within and across SAs at the nominal level. We further apply the proposed approach to two case studies based on real data from the Historical Trial Data (HTD) Sharing Initiative of the DataCelerate platform. As compared to some direct methods, SAFE demonstrates an appealing feature of screening out extreme data and reaching solid safety conclusions. It can act as either a building block in another framework, or a platform to incorporate additional components. 10.1002/sim.70592 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
title Synergy Area With FDR ‐Controlled Evaluation ( SAFE ) to Robustly Assess Safety Profile in Clinical Trials
topic Statistics in Medicine
url https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.70592