1. Evaluating newly approved drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (endTB): study protocol for an adaptive, multi-country randomized controlled trial
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Guglielmetti, L, Ardizzoni, E, Atger, M, Baudin, E, Berikova, E, Bonnet, M, Chang, E, Cloez, S, Coit, JM, Cox, V, de Jong, BC, Delifer, C, Do, JM, Tozzi, D Dos Santos, Ducher, V, Ferlazzo, G, Gouillou, M, Khan, A, Khan, U, Lachenal, N, LaHood, AN, Lecca, L, Mazmanian, M, McIlleron, H, Moschioni, M, O’Brien, K, Okunbor, O, Oyewusi, L, Panda, S, Patil, SB, Phillips, PPJ, Pichon, L, Rupasinghe, P, Rich, ML, Saluhuddin, N, Seung, KJ, Tamirat, M, Trippa, L, Cellamare, M, Velásquez, GE, Wasserman, S, Zimetbaum, PJ, Varaine, F, and Mitnick, CD
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Antimicrobial Resistance ,Biodefense ,Rare Diseases ,Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities ,Orphan Drug ,Infectious Diseases ,Prevention ,Emerging Infectious Diseases ,Tuberculosis ,Lung ,Clinical Research ,Vaccine Related ,6.1 Pharmaceuticals ,Evaluation of treatments and therapeutic interventions ,Infection ,Good Health and Well Being ,Antitubercular Agents ,Bayes Theorem ,Humans ,Pharmaceutical Preparations ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,Rifampin ,Tuberculosis ,Multidrug-Resistant ,Rifampin-resistant tuberculosis ,Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis ,Bedaquiline ,Delamanid ,Linezolid ,Clofazimine ,Fluoroquinolone ,Pyrazinamide ,Treatment shortening ,MDR-TB ,Non-inferiority ,Bayesian adaptive randomization ,Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology ,Cardiovascular System & Hematology ,General & Internal Medicine ,Clinical sciences ,Epidemiology ,Health services and systems - Abstract
BackgroundTreatment of multidrug- and rifampin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is expensive, labour-intensive, and associated with substantial adverse events and poor outcomes. While most MDR/RR-TB patients do not receive treatment, many who do are treated for 18 months or more. A shorter all-oral regimen is currently recommended for only a sub-set of MDR/RR-TB. Its use is only conditionally recommended because of very low-quality evidence underpinning the recommendation. Novel combinations of newer and repurposed drugs bring hope in the fight against MDR/RR-TB, but their use has not been optimized in all-oral, shorter regimens. This has greatly limited their impact on the burden of disease. There is, therefore, dire need for high-quality evidence on the performance of new, shortened, injectable-sparing regimens for MDR-TB which can be adapted to individual patients and different settings.MethodsendTB is a phase III, pragmatic, multi-country, adaptive, randomized, controlled, parallel, open-label clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of shorter treatment regimens containing new drugs for patients with fluoroquinolone-susceptible, rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. Study participants are randomized to either the control arm, based on the current standard of care for MDR/RR-TB, or to one of five 39-week multi-drug regimens containing newly approved and repurposed drugs. Study participation in all arms lasts at least 73 and up to 104 weeks post-randomization. Randomization is response-adapted using interim Bayesian analysis of efficacy endpoints. The primary objective is to assess whether the efficacy of experimental regimens at 73 weeks is non-inferior to that of the control. A sample size of 750 patients across 6 arms affords at least 80% power to detect the non-inferiority of at least 1 (and up to 3) experimental regimens, with a one-sided alpha of 0.025 and a non-inferiority margin of 12%, against the control in both modified intention-to-treat and per protocol populations.DiscussionThe lack of a safe and effective regimen that can be used in all patients is a major obstacle to delivering appropriate treatment to all patients with active MDR/RR-TB. Identifying multiple shorter, safe, and effective regimens has the potential to greatly reduce the burden of this deadly disease worldwide.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02754765. Registered on 28 April 2016; the record was last updated for study protocol version 3.3, on 27 August 2019.
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