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ArticleStatistics in biopharmaceutical research2020

Bayesian Methods in Regulatory Science.

Gary L Rosner

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Article in Statistics in biopharmaceutical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Bayesian Statistics for Medical Devices: Progress Since 2010.Therapeutic innovation & regulatory science · 2023
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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

1 author.

Gary L RosnerDivision of Oncology Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore MD 21205.

Funding

Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Rosalie Wollett · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (JH-CERSI)U01FD005942 · FDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ALEXANDER, G. CALEB · 2016 to 2025
$15.5M
FDA HHS U01 FD005942NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory science comprises the tools, standards, and approaches that regulators use to assess safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of drugs and medical devices. A major focus of regulatory science is the design and analysis of clinical trials. Clinical trials are an essential part of clinical research programs that aim to improve therapies and reduce the burden of disease. These clinical experiments help us learn about what works clinically and what does not work. The results of clinical trials support therapeutic and policy decisions. When designing clinical trials, investigators make many decisions regarding various aspects of how they will carry out the study, such as the primary objective of the study, primary and secondary endpoints, methods of analysis, sample size, etc. This paper provides a brief review of the clinical development of new treatments and argues for the use of Bayesian methods and decision theory in clinical research.

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Clinical trialsDecision theoryStudy design

Identifiers

PMID32489520
PMCPMC7265656

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