5 papers
Personalized Dynamic Treatment Regimes in Continuous Time: A Bayesian Approach for Optimizing Clinical Decisions with Timing
William Hua, Hongyuan Mei, Sarah Zohar +2
Accurate models of clinical actions and their impacts on disease progression are critical for estimating personalized optimal dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) in medical/health res…
Clinical trials impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic: Adaptive designs to the rescue?
Cornelia Ursula Kunz, Silke Jörgens, Frank Bretz +6
Very recently the new pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) declared a pandemic by the Wo…
Random-effects meta-analysis of phase I dose-finding studies using stochastic process priors
Moreno Ursino, Christian Röver, Sarah Zohar +1
Phase I dose-finding studies aim at identifying the maximal tolerated dose (MTD). It is not uncommon that several dose-finding studies are conducted, although often with some varia…
Recent advances in methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project
T. Friede, M. Posch, S. Zohar +19
Where there are a limited number of patients, such as in a rare disease, clinical trials in these small populations present several challenges, including statistical issues. This l…
Systematic reviews in paediatric multiple sclerosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exemplify shortcomings in methods used to evaluate therapies in rare conditions
Steffen Unkel, Christian Röver, Nigel Stallard +4
BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard design of clinical research to assess interventions. However, RCTs cannot always be applied for practical or e…