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Bayesian hierarchical meta-analytic methods for modelling surrogate relationships that vary across treatment classes using aggregate data

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posted on 2020-04-23, 13:11 authored by Tasos Papanikos, John Thompson, Keith Abrams, Nicolas Steadler, Oriana Ciani, Rod Taylor, Sylwia Bujkiewicz

Surrogate endpoints play an important role in drug development when they can be used to measure treatment effect early compared to the final clinical outcome and to predict clinical benefit or harm. Such endpoints are assessed for their predictive value of clinical benefit by investigating the surrogate relationship between treatment effects on the surrogate and final outcomes using meta‐analytic methods. When surrogate relationships vary across treatment classes, such validation may fail due to limited data within each treatment class. In this paper, two alternative Bayesian meta‐analytic methods are introduced which allow for borrowing of information from other treatment classes when exploring the surrogacy in a particular class. The first approach extends a standard model for the evaluation of surrogate endpoints to a hierarchical meta‐analysis model assuming full exchangeability of surrogate relationships across all the treatment classes, thus facilitating borrowing of information across the classes. The second method is able to relax this assumption by allowing for partial exchangeability of surrogate relationships across treatment classes to avoid excessive borrowing of information from distinctly different classes. We carried out a simulation study to assess the proposed methods in nine data scenarios and compared them with subgroup analysis using the standard model within each treatment class. We also applied the methods to an illustrative example in colorectal cancer which led to obtaining the parameters describing the surrogate relationships with higher precision.

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Medical Research Council. Grant Number: MR/L009854/1

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Papanikos, T, Thompson, JR, Abrams, KR, et al. Bayesian hierarchical meta‐analytic methods for modeling surrogate relationships that vary across treatment classes using aggregate data. Statistics in Medicine. 2020; 39: 1103– 1124. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8465

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Statistics in Medicine

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39

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1103– 1124

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Wiley

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0277-6715

Acceptance date

2019-12-13

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2020-01-28

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sim.8465

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en

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