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Early phase and adaptive design clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of early phase trials

Pickles, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-0234, Christensen, Robin, Tam, Lai-Shan, Simon, Lee S. and Choy, Ernest H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4459-8609 2018. Early phase and adaptive design clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of early phase trials. Rheumatology Advances in Practice 2 (2) , rky045. 10.1093/rap/rky045

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Abstract

Objective Adaptive designs can enable highly sophisticated and efficient early phase trials, but the clinical inference from these trials is surrounded by complexity, and currently there is a paucity but steadily increasing amount of use of these designs in all fields of medicine. We aim to review early phase trials in RA to discover those that have used adaptive designs and benchmark trial characteristics. Methods From an OVID search for journal articles reporting the results of early phase trials in rheumatology, 35 studies were found, with 9 subsequently excluded; 11 were added from manual searches and 19 from searching the references. Study characteristics were extracted from the 56 papers (describing 62 trials), including the number of arms, number of patients, the primary outcome and when it was measured. Result One early phase trial using an adaptive design was found. The benchmark early phase trial in RA is a phase II double-blinded randomized trial, with four arms (one control and three intervention), each with 34 patients, and ACR20 measured at 16 weeks as the primary outcome. Conclusion The one adaptive design reviewed here, and a simulation study found in the search, both indicate that adaptive designs can be applied to early phase trials in RA. We have described the benchmark, which the efficiency of early phase trials using an adaptive design needs to exceed. These efficient designs could drive down numbers required, time for data collection and thus cost. Changes have been suggested, but more needs to be done.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
ISSN: 2514-1775
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 5 February 2019
Date of Acceptance: 17 October 2018
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 07:34
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119197

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