Abstract
The Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-prone Asthma (PrecISE) study is an adaptive platform trial designed to investigate novel interventions to severe asthma. The study is conducted under a master protocol and utilizes a crossover design with each participant receiving up to five interventions and at least one placebo. Treatment assignments are based on the patients’ biomarker profiles and precision health methods are incorporated into the interim and final analyses. We describe key elements of the PrecISE study including the multistage adaptive enrichment strategy, early stopping of an intervention for futility, power calculations, and the primary analysis strategy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1026-1037 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Funding
This trial was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The request for funding called for a Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial to assess a number of novel interventions in biomarker-defined subgroups of patients with severe asthma and obtain information on the utility of the biomarkers in identifying patients with a higher likelihood to respond to a specific treatment. Rather than propose more standard, non-adaptive, biomarker-stratified, parallel group designs, applicants were encouraged to propose adaptive trial designs that made use of accumulating data on biomarker-outcome relationships to modify design features during the trial. The PrecISE study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, grant U24 HL138998. The study also gratefully acknowledges receiving contributed product from Vitaeris, owned and operated by CSL group (clazakizumab), Vitaflo (MCT), Sun Pharma (imatinib), OM Pharma, a Vifor Pharma Group Company (OM-85, Broncho-Vaxom), Incyte (itacitinib), Laurel Venture (cavosonstat) and GlaxoSmithKline (Advair Diskus and Ventolin). The authors thank anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
Keywords
- Master protocol
- adaptive enrichment
- compex
- covariate adaptive randomization
- platform trial
- severe asthma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacology (medical)