Background: Dose-finding studies in anaesthesiology aim to target the effective dose (ED) of an anaesthetic agent in a specific population. The common dose-finding designs used are the up and down method (UDM), the biased-coin up and down (BCD), and the continual reassessment method (CRM). Although the advantages of CRM over the UDM and BCD methods have been described in the statistical literature in terms of precision and direct estimation of ED, CRM may also offer attractive properties from an ethical point of view.

Methods: Based on Monte Carlo simulations, this article aims to compare the three methods with regard to 1) their ability to find as close an estimate as possible for the ED or ED and 2) the total number of patients needed to treat and the number of failures.

Results: In contrast to BCD and UDM, CRM does find an estimate for ED and ED. UDM underestimates both ED and ED. BCD is close to the targeted EDs when the starting dose does not exceed the ED of interest, otherwise it overestimates it. CRM with cohorts of two patients is closest to the ED of interest independently of the starting doses. CRM requires between 20 and 50 observations, UDM should include 90 patients, and BCD 100 or 60 observations. Lastly, CRM is associated with fewer failures, compared with BCD and UDM.

Conclusions: Based on Monte Carlo simulations, our work suggests that the UDM is not an adequate dose-finding method because it underestimates the ED of interest. Compared with BCD, CRM offers the advantages of being more efficient, requires fewer patients to be included, and is associated with fewer failures.

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