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Assessing treatment–time interaction in clinical trials with time to event data: a meta-analysis of hypertension trials

✍ Scribed by F. Boutitie; F. Gueyffier; S. J. Pocock; J. P. Boissel

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
178 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-6715

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✦ Synopsis

Exploration of the variation of treatment effect over time in randomized clinical trials with low event rates is limited by lack of power. A meta-analysis on individual patient data from such trials can partly solve the problem, but brings other computational difficulties. Using an example in hypertension, we describe appropriate methods for graphical description and statistical modelling of treatment-time interactions in large data sets. Also, a method is developed for determining the total number of events required to detect treatment-period interactions of plausible magnitude. We conclude that trialists tend to overinterpret the observed data when looking for potential treatment-time interactions by visual comparisons of survival curves, failing to realize the substantial amounts of data that are needed for their detection and estimation.

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