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Comparing the ability of various compositive outcomes to discriminate treatment effects in MS clinical trials

  • D. E. Goodkin
  • , R. L. Priore
  • , K. E. Wende
  • , M. Campion
  • , D. N. Bourdette
  • , R. M. Herndon
  • , J. S. Fischer
  • , L. D. Jacobs
  • , D. L. Cookfair
  • , R. A. Rudick
  • , J. R. Richert
  • , A. M. Salazar
  • , C. V. Granger
  • , J. H. Simon
  • , J. J. Alam
  • , D. M. Bartoszak
  • , J. Braiman
  • , C. M. Brownscheidle
  • , M. E. Coats
  • , S. L. Cohan
  • D. S. Dougherty, R. P. Kinkel, M. K. Mass, F. E. Munschauer, P. M. Pullicino, B. J. Scherokman, B. Weinstock-Guttman, R. H. Whitham
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Biogen IDEC
  • Oregon Health and Science University
  • G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Univ. of Mississipi Medical Center
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo
  • Georgetown University
  • Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Slocum-Dickson Medical Group
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • Kaiser Permanente

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Abstract

We compared the ability of the Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and a composite outcome of non-physician-based measures of time to ambulate 25 feet (TA) and manual dexterity (the Box and Block Test [BBT], and 9-Hole Peg Test [9HPT]) to discriminate treatment effects in the Phase III study of interferon beta-la. A log-rank comparison of Kaplan-Meier curves by treatment group showed the non-physician-based composite of BET, 9HPT, and TA was of comparable sensitivity (P = 0.013) in discriminating sustained treatment failure as the EDSS alone (P = 0.029). The composite of BBT, 9HPT, TA, and EDSS was more sensitive (P = 0.009) in discriminating sustained treatment failure than the EDSS alone. Compositive outcomes of the EDSS and non-physician-based measures of manual dexterity and timed ambulation provide an appealing strategy to reduce the number of patients required to discriminate treatment effects in MS clinical trials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)480-486
Number of pages7
JournalMultiple Sclerosis
Volume4
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998

Keywords

  • Clinical trials
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Outcome measures

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