Title

Bayesian Adaptive Trials Offer Advantages In Comparative Effectiveness Trials: An Example In Status Epilepticus

Keywords

Adaptive sample size; Bayesian adaptive trials; Comparative effectiveness research; Emergency medicine; Response adaptive randomization; Status epilepticus

Abstract

Objective: We present a novel Bayesian adaptive comparative effectiveness trial comparing three treatments for status epilepticus that uses adaptive randomization with potential early stopping. Study Design and Setting: The trial will enroll 720 unique patients in emergency departments and uses a Bayesian adaptive design. Results: The trial design is compared to a trial without adaptive randomization and produces an efficient trial in which a higher proportion of patients are likely to be randomized to the most effective treatment arm while generally using fewer total patients and offers higher power than an analogous trial with fixed randomization when identifying a superior treatment. Conclusion: When one treatment is superior to the other two, the trial design provides better patient care, higher power, and a lower expected sample size. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

8-1-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volume

66

Issue

8 SUPPL.8

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.02.015

Socpus ID

84880211289 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84880211289

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