Background Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been considered as the highest level of evidence in the pyramid of the evidence-based medicine. However, the …
Meta‐analysis is commonly used to combine results from multiple clinical trials, but traditional meta‐analysis methods do not refer explicitly to a population of individuals to …
Q He, F Gao, O Dukes… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In many clinical settings, an active-controlled trial design (eg, a non-inferiority or superiority design) is often used to compare an experimental medicine to an active control (eg, an FDA …
X Sun, Y Shin, JE Lafata… - Statistics in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Within each of 170 physicians, patients were randomized to access e‐assist, an online program that aimed to increase colorectal cancer screening (CRCS), or control. Compliance …
H Chen, DF Heitjan - The international journal of biostatistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
In clinical trials that are subject to noncompliance, the commonly used intention-to-treat estimand is valid as a causal effect of treatment assignment but is sensitive to the level of …
J Du, G Wen, X Liang - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Missing data problems arise in randomized trials, which complicates the inference of causal effects if the missing mechanism is non-ignorable. We tackle the challenge of identifying and …
Recent research in causal inference has made important progress in addressing challenges to the external validity of trial findings. Such methods weight trial participant data to more …
J Zhou, JS Hodges, H Chu - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Noncompliance with assigned treatments is a common challenge in analyzing and interpreting randomized clinical trials (RCTs). One way to handle noncompliance is to …
Q He, F Gao, O Dukes, S Delany-Moretlwe… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In many clinical settings, an active-controlled trial design (eg, a non-inferiority or superiority design) is often used to compare an experimental medicine to an active control (eg, an FDA …