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Grand Rounds Biostatistics Series January 5, 2024: Methods for Handling Missing Data in Cluster Randomized Trials (Rui Wang, PhD; Moderator: Fan Li, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

For missing completed at random (MCAR) models, the missing process will be independent of all the covariate treatments and outcomes so that the observed data actually represent the underlying population you’re making an inference about. Most of an analysis can proceed using complete data, so this isn’t an issue.

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Grand Rounds January 26, 2024: Advancing the Safe, Effective and Equitable Use of AI in Healthcare (Mark Sendak, MD, MPP; Suresh Balu, MD, MBA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

We have continued to see the digital divide, where a small number of teams have expertise. DIHI built a modular infrastructure to support many projects via a flexible data pipeline technology infrastructure that started with one model and now includes dozens of models. We have a small philanthropic gift to get started.

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Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags?

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On November 7, the company announced that the FDA has scheduled a pre-licensure inspection of BioMarin’s manufacturing facility, and required the company to submit three-year Phase III Roctavian data in the approval application. million price tag. The post Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags?

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Google’s 2021 Title Shakeup Part 2: Our SERP Title Analysis Study

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blue links) of the organic results appeared to be pulling from content outside of the HTML title tag at a much higher frequency. URLs Examined: 860 URLs across 50 websites were examined; only URLs with all available data points were part of this research. Specifically, title links (i.e., Our Methodology.

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Grand Rounds December 1, 2023: Guidelines for Design and Analysis of Stepped-Wedge Trials (James P. Hughes, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

There are several key design considerations for stepped-wedge design, including defining the estimand or what are you trying to estimate in the analysis, the key sources of variation, and how outcome data will be collected. How will the treatment effect the outcome? Magnitude of effect is a key power consideration.

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Grand Rounds March 10, 2023: Estimands in Cluster-Randomized Trials: Choosing Analyses that Answer the Right Question (Brennan Kahan, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The difference relates to how data is weighed. An example of this is when patients experience better outcomes in a large hospital compared to a small hospital when given the same medication. . Two estimands will differ when there is informative cluster size in a trial.

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Grand Rounds February 24, 2023: S2302 Pragmatica-Lung: New Directions for Decreasing Burden and Increasing Inclusion in NCTN Clinical Trials (Konstantin Dragnev, MD; Karen Reckamp, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

To reduce the burden on sites, the study has simplified data reporting by reducing time points data, reducing the number of forms that need to be submitted, and reducing the number of data elements within a form. The aim of S2302 is to validate the improvement in overall survival in S1800A.