Year-to-year variation in attack rates could result in underpowered respiratory syncytial virus vaccine efficacy trials

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OBJECTIVES: Year-to-year variation in respiratory viruses may result in lower attack rates than expected. We aimed to illustrate the impact of year-to-year variation in attack rates on the likelihood of demonstrating vaccine efficacy (VE).

STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We considered an individually randomized maternal vaccine trial against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated hospitalizations. For 10 RSV-associated hospitalizations per 1,000 infants, sample size to have 80% power for true VE of 50% and 70% was 9,846 and 4,424 participants. We reported power to show VE for varying attack rates, selected to reflect realistic year-to-year variation using observational studies. Eight scenarios including varying number of countries and seasons were developed to assess the influence of these trial parameters.

RESULTS: Including up to three seasons decreased the width of the interquartile range for power. Including more seasons concentrated statistical power closer to 80%. Least powered trials had higher statistical power with more seasons. In all scenarios, at least half of the trials had <80% power. For three-season trials, increasing the sample size by 10% reduced the percentage of underpowered trials to less than one-quarter of trials.

CONCLUSION: Year-to-year variation in RSV attack rates should be accounted for during trial design. Mitigation strategies include recruiting over more seasons, or adaptive trial designs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:147

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical epidemiology - 147(2022) vom: 15. Juli, Seite 11-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Billard, Marie-Noëlle [VerfasserIn]
Wildenbeest, Joanne [VerfasserIn]
Bont, Louis J [VerfasserIn]
Nair, Harish [VerfasserIn]
McCracken, John P [VerfasserIn]
Oude Rengerink, Katrien [VerfasserIn]
RESCEU Investigators [VerfasserIn]
Marie-Noelle Billard [Sonstige Person]
Rengerink, Katrien Oude [Sonstige Person]
Bont, Louis [Sonstige Person]
Wildenbeest, Joanne [Sonstige Person]
Nair, Harish [Sonstige Person]
Campbell, Harry [Sonstige Person]
Beutels, Philippe [Sonstige Person]
Openshaw, Peter [Sonstige Person]
Pollard, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Martinon-Torres, Federico [Sonstige Person]
Heikkinen, Terho [Sonstige Person]
Meijer, Adam [Sonstige Person]
Fischer, Thea Kølsen [Sonstige Person]
van den Berge, Maarten [Sonstige Person]
Giaquinto, Carlo [Sonstige Person]
Aerssens, Jeroen [Sonstige Person]
Abram, Michael [Sonstige Person]
Swanson, Kena [Sonstige Person]
Demont, Clarisse [Sonstige Person]
Gallichan, Scott [Sonstige Person]
Kumar, Veena [Sonstige Person]
Stoszek, Sonia [Sonstige Person]
Molero, Eva [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Attack rate
Incidence
Journal Article
RSV
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines
Sample size
Seasonality
Statistical power

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Date Completed 11.10.2022

Date Revised 31.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.02.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337486638