Efficacy and Effectiveness Too Trials: Clinical Trial Designs to Generate Evidence on Efficacy and on Effectiveness in Wide Practice
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Selker, Harry P.; Eichler, Hans‐Georg; Stockbridge, Norman L.; McElwee, Newell E.; Dere, Willard H.; Cohen, Theodora; Erban, John K.; Seyfert‐Margolis, Vicki L.; Honig, Peter K.; Kaitin, Kenneth I.; Oye, Kenneth A; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; ... Show more Show less
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Efficacy trials, designed to gain regulatory marketing approval, evaluate drugs in optimally selected patients under advantageous conditions for relatively short time periods. Effectiveness trials, designed to evaluate use in usual practice, assess treatments among more typical patients in real-world conditions with longer follow-up periods. In “efficacy-to-effectiveness (E2E) trials,” if the initial efficacy trial component is positive, the trial seamlessly transitions to an effectiveness trial component to efficiently yield both types of evidence. Yet more time could be saved by simultaneously addressing efficacy and effectiveness in an “efficacy and effectiveness too (EE2) trial.” Additionally, hybrids of the E2E and EE2 approaches with differing degrees of overlap of the two components could allow flexibility for specific drug development needs. In planning EE2 trials, each stakeholder's current and future needs, incentives, and perspective must be considered. Although challenging, the ultimate benefits to stakeholders, the health system, and the public should justify this effort.
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2019-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Biomedical InnovationJournal
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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Wiley
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Selker, Harry P. et al. "Efficacy and Effectiveness Too Trials: Clinical Trial Designs to Generate Evidence on Efficacy and on Effectiveness in Wide Practice." Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 105, 4 (February 2019): 857-866 © 2019 The Authors
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0009-9236
1532-6535