AI Article Synopsis

  • Created a comprehensive database of patient-level data from clinical trials focusing on various cancer types, utilizing overall survival and progression-free survival outcomes.
  • Extracted and digitized data from Kaplan-Meier curves of 153 Phase III oncology trials published between 2014 and 2016.
  • This patient-level data aids in designing future clinical trials and estimating important statistical characteristics (like power and type I error rate) for more tailored and effective research.

Article Abstract

We created a database of reconstructed patient-level data from published clinical trials that includes multiple time-to-event outcomes such as overall survival and progression-free survival. Outcomes were extracted from Kaplan-Meier (KM) curves reported in 153 oncology Phase III clinical trial publications identified through a PubMed search of clinical trials in breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancer, published between 2014 and 2016. For each trial that met our search criteria, we curated study-level information and digitized all reported KM curves with the software Digitizelt. We then used the digitized KM survival curves to estimate (possibly censored) patient-level time-to-event outcomes. Collections of time-to-event datasets from completed trials can be used to support the choice of appropriate trial designs for future clinical studies. Patient-level data allow investigators to tailor clinical trial designs to diseases and classes of treatments. Patient-level data also allow investigators to estimate the operating characteristics (e.g. power and type I error rate) of candidate statistical designs and methods. Database URL: https://10.6084/m9.figshare.14642247.v1.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234134PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baab037DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

patient-level data
16
clinical trials
12
database reconstructed
8
153 oncology
8
time-to-event outcomes
8
clinical trial
8
trial designs
8
data allow
8
allow investigators
8
clinical
6

Similar Publications

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!