Recent Study: Optimization of Comparative Efficacy Trials

New Pharmaceuticals market report from Datamonitor: "Optimization of Comparative Efficacy Trials"

by Bill Thompson

(WireNews+Co) - Boston, MA - 25 October 2012

Clinicians and patients want to be able to compare new drugs with those already available to inform evidence-based medicine, and reimbursement authorities require comparative data to support their decisions.

This report discusses the optimization of comparative efficacy trials, with particular attention to the question of comparator selection.

Scope
- Understand the role that comparative efficacy plays in the evaluation of new drugs.
- Identify decision-making processes for guiding key choices in the design of pivotal comparative efficacy trials.
- Understand the importance of comparator selection and the consequences of later disagreements with external authorities.
- Review the factors that need to be considered in making a comparator selection.
- Assess the opportunity for gaining input from drug evaluation authorities.

Highlights

The choice of active control group for a comparative trial can be difficult due to variation in the standard of care across different geographic regions and changing medical practices

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Numerous recent appraisals by the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Germany's Institut fur Qualitat und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG) have demonstrated the critical stance that is being readily taken by these bodies with regard to comparator selection.

Scientific advice from regulators and, where possible, from health technology assessors or reimbursement authorities can be extremely useful in guiding clinical development planning, especially in the choice of comparator.

Reasons to Get this Report
- How should an active comparator and other features of comparative efficacy trials be chosen?
- What decision-making techniques are available to those designing comparative efficacy trials?
- Can the range of comparators be expected to extend beyond pharmaceutical interventions?
- To what extent have drug evaluation committees shown flexibility in disagreements about the optimum comparator?
- Which regulatory and reimbursement authorities are willing to offer scientific advice in the design of a comparative efficacy trial?

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