Sparano Francesco, Aaronson Neil K, Cottone Francesco, Piciocchi Alfonso, La Sala Edoardo, Anota Amelie, Deliu Nina, Kieffer Jacobien M, Efficace Fabio
Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA), Data Center & Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy.
Department of Psychosocial Research, Division of Psychosocial Research & Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands.
J Comp Eff Res. 2019 Apr;8(5):279-288. doi: 10.2217/cer-2018-0092. Epub 2019 Mar 6.
We investigate the concordance, in terms of favoring the same treatment arm, between clinician-reported symptomatic adverse events (AEs) and information obtained via patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measures in cancer randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
We conducted a systematic literature search to identify all RCTs conducted in breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, published between 2004 and 2017.
We identified 207 RCTs. In the majority of RCTs (n=133, 64.2%) a discordance between PROs and AEs was found. In 104 studies (50.2%), PRO data favored the experimental arm when AEs did not, while the opposite situation was found in 29 trials (14.0%).
Frequently, information obtained via PRO measures and clinician-reported AEs do not favor the same treatment arm in RCT settings.
我们研究在癌症随机对照试验(RCT)中,临床医生报告的症状性不良事件(AE)与通过患者报告结局(PRO)测量获得的信息在支持同一治疗组方面的一致性。
我们进行了系统的文献检索,以识别2004年至2017年间发表的所有关于乳腺癌、结直肠癌、肺癌和前列腺癌的RCT。
我们识别出207项RCT。在大多数RCT中(n = 133,64.2%),发现PRO与AE之间存在不一致。在104项研究(50.2%)中,当AE不支持试验组时,PRO数据支持试验组,而在29项试验(14.0%)中发现了相反的情况。
在RCT环境中,通过PRO测量获得的信息和临床医生报告的AE通常不支持同一治疗组。