The Proportional Treatment Effect: A Metric That Empowers and Connects
WANG, G.; Liao, Y.; Li, C.; Jin, K.; Li, Y.; Cutter, G. R.
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Clinical trials with continuous endpoints, evaluate efficacy by comparing the difference in mean changes from baseline between groups. However, clinicians often interpret results in terms of a proportional reduction rather than an absolute difference. An alternative approach is to reparametrize this difference as a proportional treatment effect, calculated by dividing the difference by the placebo mean change. We demonstrate that, in theory, the proportional treatment effect can be more powerful than the simple difference in means while still controlling the type I error rate. This is achieved using the delta method as implemented in well-established computational tools like the R package msm and the SAS procedure NLMIXED. By analyzing data from phase III trials, we illustrate how a proportional treatment effect connects treatment outcomes across various endpoints and different presentation formats. The availability of these well-established statistical tools for estimating proportional treatment effects, combined with this theoretical demonstration, suggests an alternative test statistic for clinical trials with continuous endpoints.
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