Title |
Predicting clinical trial results based on announcements of interim analyses
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Published in |
Trials, March 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1745-6215-15-73 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Kristine R Broglio, David N Stivers, Donald A Berry |
Abstract |
Announcements of interim analyses of a clinical trial convey information about the results beyond the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). The amount of information conveyed may be minimal, but the fact that none of the trial's stopping boundaries has been crossed implies that the experimental therapy is neither extremely effective nor hopeless. Predicting success of the ongoing trial is of interest to the trial's sponsor, the medical community, pharmaceutical companies, and investors. We determine the probability of trial success by quantifying only the publicly available information from interim analyses of an ongoing trial. We illustrate our method in the context of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel (NSABP) trial, C-08. |
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