Innovative designs

8 important questions on Innovative designs

What are innovative study designs? (2)

  • Address a number of research questions onder one administrative trial.
  • Most effective way

Why is there a need for innovative trials?

  • Precise medicine => more drugs and groups (narrow population) => need for other trials => quicker.
  • A lot of new medication
  • More tested at the same time => higher likelihood of succes
  • More affordable

What is the balance in innovative studies?

Not too much complexity to make it still reliable.
As much as complex as possible to have the most benefit.
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What are disadvantages of a basket trial?

  • Difficult statistical properties => potential misuse
  • Potential bias => you have to take into account a lot of factors.
  • Higher risk of false positives.
  • Your groups should be not too small.

What are advantages and limitations of an umbrella trial?


Con:
  • It takes time to identify multiple drug targets. => slow progress
  • Lots of stakeholders
  • Complex data analysis
Pro:
  • You can extent the trial to a platform trial
  • You have one disease, so your patient population is not really heterogene => less heterogeneity = generalizable.

What is a platform trial?

Umbrella but with changing therapies.
“To study multiple targeted therapies in the context of a single disease in a perpetual manner, with therapies allowed to enter or leave the platform on the basis of a decision algorithm”

=> You do lots of interim analysis.

Which innovative trial needs the highest sample sizes?

Low = basket
Middle = umbrella (multiple treatments multiple, safety and efficacy tests)
High = platform

What are consequences of using a master protocol?

  • First approval will take longer
  • You add appendices that can change.
  • If your population changes you can change the appendices

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