3 papers
stat.ME2020
The DURATIONS randomised trial design: estimation targets, analysis methods and operating characteristics
Matteo Quartagno, James R. Carpenter, A. Sarah Walker +2
Background. Designing trials to reduce treatment duration is important in several therapeutic areas, including TB and antibiotics. We recently proposed a new randomised trial desig…
stat.ME2019
Handling an uncertain control group event risk in non-inferiority trials: non-inferiority frontiers and the power-stabilising transformation
Matteo Quartagno, A. Sarah Walker, Abdel G. Babiker +4
Background. Non-inferiority (NI) trials are increasingly used to evaluate new treatments expected to have secondary advantages over standard of care, but similar efficacy on the pr…
stat.ME2018
Re-thinking non-inferiority: a practical trial design for optimising treatment duration
Matteo Quartagno, A. Sarah Walker, James R. Carpenter +2
Background: trials to identify the minimal effective treatment duration are needed in different therapeutic areas, including bacterial infections, TB and Hepatitis--C. However, sta…