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Title: A robust method for comparing two treatments in a confirmatory clinical trial via multivariate time-to-event methods that jointly incorporate information from longitudinal and time-to-event data.

Authors: Saville, Benjamin R; Herring, Amy H; Koch, Gary G

Published In Stat Med, (2010 Jan 15)

Abstract: We consider regulatory clinical trials that require a prespecified method for the comparison of two treatments for chronic diseases (e.g. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in which patients suffer deterioration in a longitudinal process until death occurs. We define a composite endpoint structure that encompasses both the longitudinal data for deterioration and the time-to-event data for death, and use multivariate time-to-event methods to assess treatment differences on both data structures simultaneously, without a need for parametric assumptions or modeling. Our method is straightforward to implement, and simulations show that the method has robust power in situations in which incomplete data could lead to lower than expected power for either the longitudinal or survival data. We illustrate the method on data from a study of chronic lung disease.

PubMed ID: 19830704 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Aged; Computer Simulation; Data Interpretation, Statistical*; Female; Forced Expiratory Volume/physiology; Humans; Longitudinal Studies*; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/drug therapy*; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/physiopathology; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/methods*; Survival Analysis

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