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ArticleClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2014

A proposal for integrated efficacy-to-effectiveness (E2E) clinical trials.

H P Selker, K A Oye, H-G Eichler, N L Stockbridge, C R Mehta, K I Kaitin, N E McElwee, P K Honig, J K Erban, R B D'Agostino

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Article in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

H P Selker1] Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [2] Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
K A OyeMassachusetts Institute of Technology Political Science and Engineering Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
H-G EichlerEuropean Medicines Agency, London, UK.
N L StockbridgeUS Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
C R MehtaHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
K I Kaitin1] Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [2] Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
N E McElweeMerck & Co., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA.
P K HonigCollegeville, Pennsylvania, USA.
J K Erban1] Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [2] Tufts Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
R B D'Agostino1] Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [2] Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

TUFTS CLINICAL AND TRANSLATION SCIENCE INSTITUTE (UL1): BPCAUL1RR025752 · NCRR · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SELKER, HARRY P. · 2008 to 2011
$17.6M
Tufts Clinical and Translation Science Institute (UL1)UL1TR000073 · NCATS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SELKER, HARRY P. · 2012 to 2013
$5.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000073NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025752
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose an "efficacy-to-effectiveness" (E2E) clinical trial design, in which an effectiveness trial would commence seamlessly upon completion of the efficacy trial. Efficacy trials use inclusion/exclusion criteria to produce relatively homogeneous samples of participants with the target condition, conducted in settings that foster adherence to rigorous clinical protocols. Effectiveness trials use inclusion/exclusion criteria that generate heterogeneous samples that are more similar to the general patient spectrum, conducted in more varied settings, with protocols that approximate typical clinical care. In E2E trials, results from the efficacy trial component would be used to design the effectiveness trial component, to confirm and/or discern associations between clinical characteristics and treatment effects in typical care, and potentially to test new hypotheses. An E2E approach may improve the evidentiary basis for selecting treatments, expand understanding of the effectiveness of treatments in subgroups with particular clinical features, and foster incorporation of effectiveness information into regulatory processes.

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Clinical ProtocolsCost-Benefit AnalysisDrug TherapyHumansPatient SelectionRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment Outcome

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PMID24060819
PMCPMC3904553

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