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Statistical methods for adjusting estimates of treatment effectiveness for patient nonadherence in the context of time-to-event outcomes and health technology assessment: A systematic review of methodological papers
- Source :
- Medical Decision Making
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- Introduction. Medication nonadherence can have a significant negative impact on treatment effectiveness. Standard intention-to-treat analyses conducted alongside clinical trials do not make adjustments for nonadherence. Several methods have been developed that attempt to estimate what treatment effectiveness would have been in the absence of nonadherence. However, health technology assessment (HTA) needs to consider effectiveness under real-world conditions, where nonadherence levels typically differ from those observed in trials. With this analytical requirement in mind, we conducted a review to identify methods for adjusting estimates of treatment effectiveness in the presence of patient nonadherence to assess their suitability for use in HTA. Methods. A “Comprehensive Pearl Growing” technique, with citation searching and reference checking, was applied across 7 electronic databases to identify methodological papers for adjusting time-to-event outcomes for nonadherence using individual patient data. A narrative synthesis of identified methods was conducted. Methods were assessed in terms of their ability to reestimate effectiveness based on alternative, suboptimal adherence levels. Results. Twenty relevant methodological papers covering 12 methods and 8 extensions to those methods were identified. Methods are broadly classified into 4 groups: 1) simple methods, 2) principal stratification methods, 3) generalized methods (g-methods), and 4) pharmacometrics-based methods using pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) analysis. Each method makes specific assumptions and has associated limitations. Five of the 12 methods are capable of adjusting for real-world nonadherence, with only g-methods and PKPD considered appropriate for HTA. Conclusion. A range of statistical methods is available for adjusting estimates of treatment effectiveness for nonadherence, but most are not suitable for use in HTA. G-methods and PKPD appear to be more appropriate to estimate effectiveness in the presence of real-world adherence.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
Principal stratification
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Reviews
Context (language use)
01 natural sciences
medication nonadherence
survival analysis
Medication Adherence
010104 statistics & probability
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Humans
Medical physics
030212 general & internal medicine
0101 mathematics
causal inference
Event (probability theory)
Probability
Proportional Hazards Models
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
business.industry
Health Policy
cost-effectiveness analysis
Health technology
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Pharmacometrics
Clinical trial
Treatment Outcome
Causal inference
noncompliance
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0272989X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medical Decision Making
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6f1ba2f353b9c29bfc9bc1671ef9f034