Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
The clinical trial, a prospective study to evaluate the effect of interventions in humans under prespecified conditions, is a standard and integral part of modern medicine. Many adaptive and sequential approaches have been proposed for use in clinical trials to allow adaptations or modifications to aspects of a trial after its initiation without undermining the validity and integrity of the trial. The application of adaptive and sequential methods in clinical trials has significantly improved the flexibility, efficiency, therapeutic effect, and validity of trials. To further advance the performance of clinical trials and convey the progress of research on adaptive and sequential methods in clinical trial design, we review significant research that has explored novel adaptive and sequential approaches and their applications in Phase I, II, and III clinical trials and discuss future directions in this field of research.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Z., Zhao, Y., Cui, Y., & Kowalski, J. (2012). Methodology and Application of Adaptive and Sequential Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Trials. Journal of Probability and Statistics, Article ID 527351, 1-20. doi:10.1155/2012/527351
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This article was originally published in the Journal of Probability and Statistics and is reposted here with the permission of the authors. Copyright © 2012 Zhengjia Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.