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Contemp Clin Trials ; 27(2): 165-73, 2006 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16316789

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Enrichment strategies which select subjects who appear to respond to the drug have been used in drug studies to demonstrate clinical efficacy. We have used clinical trial simulation techniques to examine factors that are relevant in clinical trial design based on enrichment where poor responders are excluded from the double-blind phase of the study. METHODS: Simulations were performed for an analgesic trial design involving an open-dose titration phase (enrichment phase) followed by a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled maintenance phase. Enrichment was examined by excluding subjects above a predefined pain score (cutoff) from analysis of efficacy for the maintenance phase. Cutoff pain scores ranging from 4 to 7 on a 0 to 10 categorical scale were examined. A database consisting of chronic pain patients who participated in studies with a new formulation of buprenorphine was used to build the simulation model. Since no data were available for the key model variable "correlation between treatment and placebo response", values of 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 were used for the simulations. RESULTS: A correlation between treatment and placebo effect ranging from 0.75 to 0.25 will cause the likelihood of trial success to vary from 50% to 95%. This model also shows that recruitment efficiency will decrease with the use of lower cutoff pain scores. CONCLUSION: Prior to using enrichment techniques, investigators must consider the correlation between treatment effect and placebo response to optimize clinical trial design.


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Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use , Buprenorphine/therapeutic use , Clinical Trials as Topic , Models, Statistical , Back Pain/drug therapy , Humans , Osteoarthritis/drug therapy
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