Adaptive Designs: Lessons for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Trials
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Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, 20090 Milan, Italy
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Department of Gastroenterology and Inserm NGERE U1256, Nancy University Hospital, University of Lorraine, 54500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, 20089 Milan, Italy
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J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(8), 2350; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082350
Received: 22 June 2020 / Revised: 10 July 2020 / Accepted: 22 July 2020 / Published: 23 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Therapies and Approaches to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD))
In recent decades, scientific research has considerably evolved in the field of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and clinical studies have become increasingly complex, including new outcomes, different study populations, and additional techniques of re-randomization and centralized control. In this context, randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for new drugs’ development. However, traditional study designs are time-consuming, expensive, and only a small percentage of the tested therapies are approved. For this reason, a new study design called “adaptive design” has been introduced, allowing to accumulate data during the study and to make predefined adjustments based on the results of scheduled interim analysis. Our aim is to clarify the advantages and drawbacks of adaptive designs in order to properly interpret study results and to identify their role in upcoming IBD trials.
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Keywords:
adaptive designs; study design; inflammatory bowel disease
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D'Amico, F.; Danese, S.; Peyrin-Biroulet, L. Adaptive Designs: Lessons for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Trials. J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 2350. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082350
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D'Amico F, Danese S, Peyrin-Biroulet L. Adaptive Designs: Lessons for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Trials. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020; 9(8):2350. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082350
Chicago/Turabian StyleD'Amico, Ferdinando; Danese, Silvio; Peyrin-Biroulet, Laurent. 2020. "Adaptive Designs: Lessons for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Trials" J. Clin. Med. 9, no. 8: 2350. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082350
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