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Over the past 15 – 20 years, projected peak sales and return on investment (ROI) of new drugs has been shrinking (source: Statista and Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions). To offset this, pharmaceutical companies are pushing to get more drugs to market and multiple indications for each agent.
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Decentralized clinical trials (DCT) seems to have burst on to the scene in just the last few years, so it is easy to get swept up into how we can best implement them into our clinical trials. However, it is worth examining the past of this supposedly “new” method of conducting clinical trials.
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PROMETRIKA team members make continuous learning a priority. As a statistician, it is important to keep up-to-date with the FDA’s current thinking on analytic approaches applied in clinical trials. In May 2021, the FDA published a draft guidance for industry, “Adjusting for Covariates in Randomized Clinical Trials for Drugs and Biological Products,” which provides recommendations for use of covariates in the analysis of randomized, parallel group clinical trials that are applicable to superiority trials and noninferiority trials. I share some highlights and insights on this topic below.