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Modelling, prediction and adaptive adjustment of recruitment in multicentre trials
Author(s) -
Anisimov Vladimir V.,
Fedorov Valerii V.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.2956
Subject(s) - estimator , poisson distribution , computer science , statistical model , statistics , econometrics , confidence interval , sample size determination , sample (material) , clinical trial , machine learning , mathematics , medicine , chemistry , chromatography , pathology
This paper is focused on statistical modelling, prediction and adaptive adjustment of patient recruitment in multicentre clinical trials. We consider a recruitment model, where patients arrive at different centres according to Poisson processes, with recruitment rates viewed as a sample from a gamma distribution. A statistical analysis of completed studies is provided and properties of a few types of parameter estimators are investigated analytically and using simulation. The model has been validated using many real completed trials. A statistical technique for predictive recruitment modelling for ongoing trials is developed. It allows the prediction of the remaining recruitment time together with confidence intervals using current enrolment information, and also provision of an adaptive adjustment of recruitment by calculating the number of additional centres required to accomplish a study up to a certain deadline with a pre‐specified probability. Results are illustrated for different recruitment scenarios. Copyright © 2007John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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