Improved adherence adjustment in the Coronary Drug Project
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Murray, Eleanor J., and Miguel A. Hernán. 2018. “Improved adherence adjustment in the Coronary Drug Project.” Trials 19 (1): 158. doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2519-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2519-5.Abstract
Background: The survival difference between adherers and non-adherers to placebo in the Coronary Drug Project has been used to support the thesis that adherence adjustment in randomized trials is not generally possible and, therefore, that only intention-to-treat analyses should be trusted. We previously demonstrated that adherence adjustment can be validly conducted in the Coronary Drug Project using a simplistic approach. Here, we re-analyze the data using an approach that takes full advantage of recent methodological developments. Methods: We used inverse-probability weighted hazards models to estimate the 5-year survival and mortality risk when individuals in the placebo arm of the Coronary Drug Project adhere to at least 80% of the drug continuously or never during the 5-year follow-up period. Results: Adjustment for post-randomization covariates resulted in 5-year mortality risk difference estimates ranging from − 0.7 (95% confidence intervals (CI), − 12.2, 10.7) to 4.5 (95% CI, − 6.3, 15.3) percentage points. Conclusions: Our analysis confirms that appropriate adjustment for post-randomization predictors of adherence largely removes the association between adherence to placebo and mortality originally described in this trial. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, Identifier: NCT00000482. Registered retrospectively on 27 October 1999. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13063-018-2519-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.Other Sources
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