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Targeted randomization dose optimization trials enable fractional dosing of scarce drugs

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  • Philip S Boonstra
  • Alex Tabarrok
  • Garth W Strohbehn

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Administering drug at a dose lower than that used in pivotal clinical trials, known as fractional dosing, can stretch scarce resources. Implementing fractional dosing with confidence requires understanding a drug’s dose-response relationship. Clinical trials aimed at describing dose-response in scarce, efficacious drugs risk underdosing, leading dose-finding trials to not be pursued despite their obvious potential benefit. We developed a new set of response-adaptive randomized dose-finding trials and demonstrate, in a series of simulated trials across diverse dose-response curves, these designs’ efficiency in identifying the minimum dose that achieves satisfactory efficacy. Compared to conventional designs, these trials have higher probabilities of identifying lower doses while reducing the risks of both population- and subject-level underdosing. We strongly recommend that, upon demonstration of a drug’s efficacy, pandemic drug development swiftly proceeds with response-adaptive dose-finding trials. This unified strategy ensures that scarce effective drugs produce maximum social benefits.

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  • Philip S Boonstra & Alex Tabarrok & Garth W Strohbehn, 2023. "Targeted randomization dose optimization trials enable fractional dosing of scarce drugs," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(10), pages 1-16, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0287511
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287511
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