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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2014

Designing clinical trials for dystonia.

Wendy R Galpern, Christopher S Coffey, Alberto Albanese, Ken Cheung, Cynthia L Comella, Dixie J Ecklund, Stanley Fahn, Joseph Jankovic, Karl Kieburtz, Anthony E Lang and 6 more

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pilot Single-Blind Trial of AbobotulinumtoxinA in Oromandibular Dystonia.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2018
    Trial
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. Childhood dystonias.Current treatment options in neurology · 2015
    Article
  5. The therapeutic potential of cannabinoids for movement disorders.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2015
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Editorial: Neurotherapeutics of movement disorders.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2014
    Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 13 institutions in 3 countries.

Wendy R GalpernNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm 2225, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA, galpernw@ninds.nih.gov.
Christopher S Coffey
Alberto Albanese
Ken Cheung
Cynthia L Comella
Dixie J Ecklund
Stanley Fahn
Joseph Jankovic
Karl Kieburtz
Anthony E Lang
Michael P McDermott
Jeremy M Shefner
Jan K Teller
John L P Thompson
Sharon D Yeatts
H A Jinnah
Columbia University · USUniversity of Iowa · USBaylor College of Medicine · USDystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada · CAEmory University · USFondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta · ITMedical University of South Carolina · USNational Institutes of Health · USRush University Medical Center · USSUNY Upstate Medical University · USToronto Western Hospital · CAUniversity of Rochester · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Dystonia CoalitionU54NS065701 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINNAH, HYDER A · 2009 to 2014
$7.0M
Dystonia CoalitionU54TR001456 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINNAH, HYDER A · 2015 to 2016
$2.5M
WORKSHOP ON DESIGNING CLINICAL TRIALS FOR DYSTONIAU13NS079084 · NINDS · DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI TELLER, JAN · 2012 to 2012
$20k
NCATS NIH HHS U54 TR001456NINDS NIH HHS U13 NS079084NINDS NIH HHS U13NS079084NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS065701NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS65701
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of dystonia, novel therapeutics are being developed. Such therapies will require clinical investigation ranging from exploratory studies to examine safety, tolerability, dosage selection, and preliminary efficacy to confirmatory studies to evaluate efficacy definitively. As dystonia is a rare and complex disorder with clinical and etiological heterogeneity, clinical trials will require careful consideration of the trial design, including enrollment criteria, concomitant medication use, and outcome measures. Given the complexities of designing and implementing efficient clinical trials, it is important for clinicians and statisticians to collaborate closely throughout the clinical development process and that each has a basic understanding of both the clinical and statistical issues that must be addressed. To facilitate designing appropriate clinical trials in this field, we review important general clinical trial and regulatory principles, and discuss the critical components of trials with an emphasis on considerations specific to dystonia. Additionally, we discuss designs used in early exploratory, late exploratory, and confirmatory phases, including adaptive designs.

Indexed as

Research DesignClinical Trials as TopicDystoniaHumansOutcome Assessment, Health Care

Identifiers

PMID24282121
PMCPMC3899487
OpenAlexW2058388133

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