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ArticleBMC pediatrics2010

Robustness of the healthcare utilization results from the Rotavirus Efficacy and Safety Trial (REST) evaluating the human-bovine (WC3) reassortant pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5).

Robbin Itzler, Gary Koch, David O Matson, Leif Gothefors, Pierre Van Damme, Mark J Dinubile, Penny M Heaton

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Article in BMC pediatrics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00090233 (Safety and Efficacy of Pentavalent), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT00090233 phase3completednot on this map

Safety and Efficacy of Pentavalent (G1, G2, G3, G4 , and P1) Human-Bovine Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine in Healthy Infants

TypeinterventionalSponsorMerck Sharp & Dohme LLCRan2001 to 2004Enrolled69,274ConditionsRotavirus InfectionsArmsRotateq™, Comparator: Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  2. Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
    Pooled it
  3. Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Robbin ItzlerMerck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gary Koch
David O Matson
Leif Gothefors
Pierre Van Damme
Mark J Dinubile
Penny M Heaton

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Rotavirus Efficacy and Safety Trial was a placebo-controlled Phase III study that evaluated the safety and efficacy of a three-dose pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) including its effect on healthcare utilization for rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE). The per-protocol (PP) analyses, which counted events occurring 14 days after dose 3 among infants without protocol violations, have already been published. This paper evaluates the consistency of the healthcare utilization results based on the modified intention to treat (MITT) analyses with the PP analyses. The MITT analyses include all infants receiving at least one dose of vaccine or placebo and follow-up begins after dose 1. The paper also explores the consistency of the results for different subgroups of the study population with different types of surveillance.

methodsData on healthcare utilization for acute gastroenteritis were collected via telephone interviews after administration of the first dose. Parents were either contacted every 6 weeks or every 2 weeks depending on the substudy in which they were enrolled. Those contacted every 2 weeks were also asked to complete symptom diaries. Poisson regression was used to evaluate the effect of RV5 on the rates of RVGE-associated healthcare encounters in all of the analyses.

resultsIn the first 2 years after vaccination, RV5 reduced the combined rate of hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits 88.9% (95% CI: 84.9, 91.9) for all RVGE regardless of serotype in the MITT analysis compared with a 94.5% (95% CI: 91.2, 96.6) reduction based on the G1-G4 PP analysis. By type of surveillance, the rate reductions for the G1-G4 PP analysis were 91.0% (95% CI: 81.7, 95.5) and 95.9% (95% CI: 92.2, 97.8) among parents contacted every 2 weeks (number evaluable = 4,451) and every 6 weeks (number evaluable = 52,683) respectively.

conclusionsOur analyses demonstrated that the effect of RV5 on reducing the rate of hospitalizations and ED visits based on the MITT analyses were generally consistent with the PP analyses. The rate of events for subgroups with different intensities of surveillance differed but the effect of RV5 on the relative rate reductions were consistent with the results that have already been published.

trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00090233.

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Clinical Trials, Phase III as TopicEmergency Service, HospitalGastroenteritisHospitalizationHumansImmunization ScheduleInfantReassortant VirusesRotavirusRotavirus InfectionsRotavirus VaccinesSerotypingTreatment OutcomeVaccines, AttenuatedRotaTeqRotavirus VaccinesVaccines, Attenuated

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PMID20540778
PMCPMC2905347

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