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Balendra, Rubika, Jones, Ashley, Jivraj, Naheed, Steen, I Nick, Young, Carolyn A, Shaw, Pamela J, Turner, Martin R, Leigh, Nigel, Al-Chalabi, Ammar, UK-MND LiCALS Study Group, and Mito Target ALS Study Group, (2015) Use of clinical staging in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for phase 3 clinical trials. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 86 (1). pp. 45-49. ISSN 0022-3050
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
OBJECTIVES
The use of clinical staging in the fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis would have value in optimising future therapeutic trials. We aimed to use previous clinical trial data to determine the length of time patients spend in each of four proposed stages, its range and transition patterns to subsequent stages.
METHODS
Using databases from two multicentre clinical trials, patients were retrospectively staged through the trial course. At each stage we assessed whether patients then progressed to an earlier, consecutive or later stage or death. Duration spent in each stage before progression to a later stage was calculated.
RESULTS
There were 725 patients. No patients moved to an earlier stage. More patients at stages 1, 2 and 3 progressed to the consecutive stage rather than skipping a stage. 59.3% of patients at Stage 1 progressed to Stage 2, 54.0% of patients at Stage 2 progressed to Stage 3, 42.3% of patients at Stage 3 progressed to Stage 4 and 47.0% of Stage 4 patients progressed to death. Transition times between stages had a median duration of 3 to 7 months for stages 2 to 4.
DISCUSSION
We have shown using trial data that transition times between stages are short. Use of stage duration as an endpoint might allow a shorter trial duration. We have shown face validity in this system as most patients progress through consecutive stages, and none revert to earlier stages. Furthermore, we have shown the system is reliable across populations and therefore has content validity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools and Departments: | Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Neuroscience |
| Subjects: | R Medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry > RC0346 Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system Including speech disorders |
| Depositing User: | Patricia Butler |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2015 11:58 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2017 14:26 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54187 |