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SynthesisAmerican journal of epidemiology2022

Estimating the Complier Average Causal Effect in a Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials With Binary Outcomes Accounting for Noncompliance: A Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Model Approach.

Ting Zhou, Jincheng Zhou, James S Hodges, Lifeng Lin, Yong Chen, Stephen R Cole, Haitao Chu

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Synthesis in American journal of epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ting Zhou
Jincheng Zhou
James S Hodges
Lifeng Lin
Yong Chen
Stephen R Cole
Haitao Chu

Funding

Statistical Methods and Software for Multivariate Meta-analysisR01LM012982 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LIN, LIFENG, SIEGEL, LIANNE · 2019 to 2022
$1.3M
Statistical Methods and Software for Multivariate Meta-analysisR21LM012197 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI CHU, HAITAO · 2015 to 2016
$385k
Joint Meta-Regression Methods Accounting for Postrandomization VariablesR21LM012744 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI CHU, HAITAO · 2017 to 2018
$376k
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012982NLM NIH HHS R21 LM012197NLM NIH HHS R21 LM012744
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Noncompliance, a common problem in randomized clinical trials (RCTs), can bias estimation of the effect of treatment receipt using a standard intention-to-treat analysis. The complier average causal effect (CACE) measures the effect of an intervention in the latent subpopulation that would comply with their assigned treatment. Although several methods have been developed to estimate the CACE in analyzing a single RCT, methods for estimating the CACE in a meta-analysis of RCTs with noncompliance await further development. This article reviews the assumptions needed to estimate the CACE in a single RCT and proposes a frequentist alternative for estimating the CACE in a meta-analysis, using a generalized linear latent and mixed model with SAS software (SAS Institute, Inc.). The method accounts for between-study heterogeneity using random effects. We implement the methods and describe an illustrative example of a meta-analysis of 10 RCTs evaluating the effect of receiving epidural analgesia in labor on cesarean delivery, where noncompliance varies dramatically between studies. Simulation studies are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.

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BiasComputer SimulationDrug MonitoringEpidemiologic MethodsAnalgesia, EpiduralCesarean SectionHumansModels, StatisticalRandomized Controlled Trials as Topiccomplier average causal effectgeneralized linear latent and mixed modelmeta-analysisnoncompliancerandomized clinical trials

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PMID34564720
PMCPMC8898011

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