Treatment estimands in clinical trials of patients hospitalised for COVID-19: Ensuring trials ask the right questions

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dc.contributor.authorKahan, Brennan C.
dc.contributor.authorMorris, Tim P.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ian R.
dc.contributor.authorTweed, Conor D.
dc.contributor.authorCro, Suzie
dc.contributor.authorDahly, Darren
dc.contributor.authorPham, Tra My
dc.contributor.authorEsmail, Hanif
dc.contributor.authorBabiker, Abdel
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, James R.
dc.contributor.funderMedical Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-08T14:11:06Z
dc.date.available2022-09-08T14:11:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractWhen designing a clinical trial, explicitly defining the treatment estimands of interest (that which is to be estimated) can help to clarify trial objectives and ensure the questions being addressed by the trial are clinically meaningful. There are several challenges when defining estimands. Here, we discuss a number of these in the context of trials of treatments for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and make suggestions for how estimands should be defined for key outcomes. We suggest that treatment effects should usually be measured as differences in proportions (or risk or odds ratios) for outcomes such as death and requirement for ventilation, and differences in means for outcomes such as the number of days ventilated. We further recommend that truncation due to death should be handled differently depending on whether a patient- or resource-focused perspective is taken; for the former, a composite approach should be used, while for the latter, a while-alive approach is preferred. Finally, we suggest that discontinuation of randomised treatment should be handled from a treatment policy perspective, where non-adherence is ignored in the analysis (i.e. intention to treat).en
dc.description.sponsorshipMedical Research Council (MC_UU_12023/21; MC_UU_12023/29)
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid286
dc.identifier.citationKahan, B. C., Morris, T. P., White, I. R., Tweed, C. D., Cro, S., Dahly, D., Pham, T. M., Esmail, H., Babiker, A. and Carpenter, J. R. (2020) ‘Treatment estimands in clinical trials of patients hospitalised for COVID-19: ensuring trials ask the right questions’, BMC Medicine, 18(1), 286 (8pp). doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01737-0en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12916-020-01737-0
dc.identifier.endpage8
dc.identifier.issn17417015
dc.identifier.journaltitleBMC Medicineen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13558
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltden
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dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectEstimanden
dc.subjectIntercurrent eventsen
dc.subjectRandomised trialen
dc.subjectTruncation-by-deathen
dc.titleTreatment estimands in clinical trials of patients hospitalised for COVID-19: Ensuring trials ask the right questionsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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