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- Title
Selection bias for treatments with positive Phase 2 results.
- Authors
Kirby, S.; Li, Jianjun; Chuang‐Stein, C.
- Abstract
Summary: In drug development, treatments are most often selected at Phase 2 for further development when an initial trial of a new treatment produces a result that is considered positive. This selection due to a positive result means, however, that an estimator of the treatment effect, which does not take account of the selection is likely to over‐estimate the true treatment effect (ie, will be biased). This bias can be large and researchers may face a disappointingly lower estimated treatment effect in further trials. In this paper, we review a number of methods that have been proposed to correct for this bias and introduce three new methods. We present results from applying the various methods to two examples and consider extensions of the examples. We assess the methods with respect to bias of estimation of the treatment effect and compare the probabilities that a bias‐corrected treatment effect estimate will exceed a decision threshold. Following previous work, we also compare average power for the situation where a Phase 3 trial is launched given that the bias‐corrected observed Phase 2 treatment effect exceeds a launch threshold. Finally, we discuss our findings and potential application of the bias correction methods.
- Subjects
PATIENT selection; TREATMENT effectiveness; ESTIMATION bias; DRUG development; NEW trials
- Publication
Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2020, Vol 19, Issue 5, p679
- ISSN
1539-1604
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pst.2024