Transporting inferences from a randomized trial to a new target population

05/01/2018
by   Issa J. Dahabreh, et al.
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When variables that are treatment effect modifiers also influence the decision to participate in a clinical trial, the average effect among trial participants will differ from the effect in other populations of trial-eligible individuals. In this tutorial, we consider methods for transporting inferences about a time-fixed treatment from trial participants to a new target population of trial-eligible individuals, using data from a completed randomized trial along with baseline covariate data from a sample of non-participants. We examine methods based on modeling the expectation of the outcome, the probability of participation, or both (doubly robust). We compare the finite-sample performance of different methods in a simulation study and provide example code to implement the methods in software. We illustrate the application of the methods to the Coronary Artery Surgery Study, a randomized trial nested within a cohort of trial-eligible patients to compare coronary artery surgery plus medical therapy versus medical therapy alone for patients with chronic coronary artery disease. Lastly, we discuss issues that arise when using the methods in applied transportability analyses.

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