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Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project
Where there are a limited number of patients, such as in a rare disease, clinical trials in these small populations present several challenges, including statistical issues. This led to an EU FP7 call for proposals in 2013. One of the three projects funded was the Innovative Methodology for Small Po...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30359266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0919-y |
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author | Friede, Tim Posch, Martin Zohar, Sarah Alberti, Corinne Benda, Norbert Comets, Emmanuelle Day, Simon Dmitrienko, Alex Graf, Alexandra Günhan, Burak Kürsad Hee, Siew Wan Lentz, Frederike Madan, Jason Miller, Frank Ondra, Thomas Pearce, Michael Röver, Christian Toumazi, Artemis Unkel, Steffen Ursino, Moreno Wassmer, Gernot Stallard, Nigel |
author_facet | Friede, Tim Posch, Martin Zohar, Sarah Alberti, Corinne Benda, Norbert Comets, Emmanuelle Day, Simon Dmitrienko, Alex Graf, Alexandra Günhan, Burak Kürsad Hee, Siew Wan Lentz, Frederike Madan, Jason Miller, Frank Ondra, Thomas Pearce, Michael Röver, Christian Toumazi, Artemis Unkel, Steffen Ursino, Moreno Wassmer, Gernot Stallard, Nigel |
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description | Where there are a limited number of patients, such as in a rare disease, clinical trials in these small populations present several challenges, including statistical issues. This led to an EU FP7 call for proposals in 2013. One of the three projects funded was the Innovative Methodology for Small Populations Research (InSPiRe) project. This paper summarizes the main results of the project, which was completed in 2017. The InSPiRe project has led to development of novel statistical methodology for clinical trials in small populations in four areas. We have explored new decision-making methods for small population clinical trials using a Bayesian decision-theoretic framework to compare costs with potential benefits, developed approaches for targeted treatment trials, enabling simultaneous identification of subgroups and confirmation of treatment effect for these patients, worked on early phase clinical trial design and on extrapolation from adult to pediatric studies, developing methods to enable use of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics data, and also developed improved robust meta-analysis methods for a small number of trials to support the planning, analysis and interpretation of a trial as well as enabling extrapolation between patient groups. In addition to scientific publications, we have contributed to regulatory guidance and produced free software in order to facilitate implementation of the novel methods. |
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spelling | pubmed-62032172018-11-01 Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project Friede, Tim Posch, Martin Zohar, Sarah Alberti, Corinne Benda, Norbert Comets, Emmanuelle Day, Simon Dmitrienko, Alex Graf, Alexandra Günhan, Burak Kürsad Hee, Siew Wan Lentz, Frederike Madan, Jason Miller, Frank Ondra, Thomas Pearce, Michael Röver, Christian Toumazi, Artemis Unkel, Steffen Ursino, Moreno Wassmer, Gernot Stallard, Nigel Orphanet J Rare Dis Review Where there are a limited number of patients, such as in a rare disease, clinical trials in these small populations present several challenges, including statistical issues. This led to an EU FP7 call for proposals in 2013. One of the three projects funded was the Innovative Methodology for Small Populations Research (InSPiRe) project. This paper summarizes the main results of the project, which was completed in 2017. The InSPiRe project has led to development of novel statistical methodology for clinical trials in small populations in four areas. We have explored new decision-making methods for small population clinical trials using a Bayesian decision-theoretic framework to compare costs with potential benefits, developed approaches for targeted treatment trials, enabling simultaneous identification of subgroups and confirmation of treatment effect for these patients, worked on early phase clinical trial design and on extrapolation from adult to pediatric studies, developing methods to enable use of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics data, and also developed improved robust meta-analysis methods for a small number of trials to support the planning, analysis and interpretation of a trial as well as enabling extrapolation between patient groups. In addition to scientific publications, we have contributed to regulatory guidance and produced free software in order to facilitate implementation of the novel methods. BioMed Central 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6203217/ /pubmed/30359266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0919-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Friede, Tim Posch, Martin Zohar, Sarah Alberti, Corinne Benda, Norbert Comets, Emmanuelle Day, Simon Dmitrienko, Alex Graf, Alexandra Günhan, Burak Kürsad Hee, Siew Wan Lentz, Frederike Madan, Jason Miller, Frank Ondra, Thomas Pearce, Michael Röver, Christian Toumazi, Artemis Unkel, Steffen Ursino, Moreno Wassmer, Gernot Stallard, Nigel Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title | Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title_full | Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title_fullStr | Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title_full_unstemmed | Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title_short | Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project |
title_sort | recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the inspire project |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30359266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0919-y |
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