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SHORT-COURSE ANTIMICROBIALS FOR PAEDIATRIC PNEUMONIASHORT-COURSE ANTIMICROBIALS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAEDIATRIC COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIABy JEFFREY M. PERNICA, B.Sc. M.D.A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of ScienceMcMaster University ? Copyright by Jeffrey M. Pernica, December 2014McMaster University MASTER OF SCIENCE (2014) Hamilton, Ontario (Health Research Methodologies)TITLE: Short-course antimicrobials for the treatment of paediatric community-acquired pneumonia AUTHOR: Jeffrey M. Pernica, B. Sc. (McGill) M.D. (Dalhousie) SUPERVISOR: Professor Mark Loeb NUMBER OF PAGES: 72ABSTRACTPaediatric community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is common in North America. It is often treated with beta-lactam antimicrobials targeting S. pneumoniae, the most important cause of CAP in young children. Current guidelines recommend 10 days of therapy for paediatric CAP, regardless of severity; in contrast, mild CAP in adults is routinely treated with only 5 days of antimicrobials. There have been no definitive studies of 5-day vs. 10-day therapy for CAP in children.The objective of this thesis was to conduct a pilot RCT comparing 5 to 10 days of amoxicillin for the treatment of mild paediatric CAP and then design the multicentre follow-up trial.Children aged 6 months - 10 years with no significant past medical history presenting to the McMaster Children's Hospital emergency department with mild CAP were eligible for enrollment. All participants were randomized to either 10 days high-dose amoxicillin (90 mg/kg/day divided bid) or 5 days of high-dose amoxicillin + 5 days placebo. The primary outcome was clinical cure at day 14-18 post-enrollment.In total, 61 participants were recruited. The median participant age was 2.64 y. Only 60% of chest radiographs were reported by the radiologist as showing evidence of pneumonia. There were six treatment failures; one participant failed to defervesce on day 4, one participant had recurrent fevers leading to re-presentation to the emergency, and the other four participants did not meet clinical cure criteria but were essentially well at the time of follow-up. Study blinding has been maintained.The majority of previously healthy children with mild CAP who are well enough to be treated as outpatients appear to do well, regardless of duration of antimicrobial treatment. Feasibility and safety of the trial protocol have been demonstrated; the follow-up multicentre trial is slated to begin in mid-2015.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Mark Loeb, for always being incredibly supportive and for making himself available at any time…regardless of the number of grants he had due the next day. I also could not have done this were it not for my other committee members, Drs. Marek Smieja and Eleanor Pullenayegum. Lastly, but most importantly, I am grateful for the love of my family and my beautiful children Avrah and Oren, without whom none of this would really matter.TABLE OF CONTENTS TOC \o "1-3" ABSTRACT PAGEREF _Toc280336694 \h iACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PAGEREF _Toc280336695 \h iiiTABLE OF CONTENTS PAGEREF _Toc280336696 \h ivPART 1: OUTLINE PAGEREF _Toc280336697 \h 1PART 2: INTRODUCTION PAGEREF _Toc280336698 \h 2PART 3: THE MAIN PROJECT PAGEREF _Toc280336699 \h 16PART 4 – THE COMPLETED PILOT TRIAL PAGEREF _Toc280336700 \h 41PART 5 – SELECTED METHODOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR NON-INFERIORITY STUDIES PAGEREF _Toc280336701 \h 53PART 6 – SELECTED METHODOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR PILOT STUDIES PAGEREF _Toc280336702 \h 59PART 7 – CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS PAGEREF _Toc280336703 \h 64REFERENCES PAGEREF _Toc280336704 \h 66PART 1: OUTLINEThe focus of this thesis was the design of a multicentre non-inferiority randomized controlled trial comparing short-course antimicrobial therapy to standard-duration therapy for the treatment of mild community-acquired pneumonia in children. After a review of the literature (Part 2), a pilot trial was designed (Part 4) and conducted using funds from the Hamilton Health Sciences New Investigator Award. The data and experience acquired from the pilot trial were reviewed prior to the design of the main multicentre trial (Part 3). Specific methodologic considerations relevant to the design of the pilot and main trial will be discussed last (Parts 5 and 6).PART 2: INTRODUCTIONBurden of pneumonia in childhoodRespiratory infection is the leading cause of death for children worldwide PEVuZE5vdGU+PENpdGU+PFllYXI+MjAxMzwvWWVhcj48UmVjTnVtPjM4ODc8L1JlY051bT48RGlz

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The multiplex respiratory virus polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing panel in clinical use at McMaster Children’s Hospital detects parainfluenza 1/2/3, influenza A/B, RSV A/B, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, and enterovirus. Should the epidemiology of viral infections in Ontario change significantly during the study period we will also have access to the Luminex xTag RVP testing panel, which also detects coronaviruses. All NPS specimens will also have incidence density of Streptococcus pneumoniae (target is lytA) measured using a quantitative PCR assay; “high-level” colonization will be defined as > 10 000 genome equivalents/mL specimen. To detect ‘atypical’ organisms, a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay will be used to simultaneously detect Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila. It will be critically important to document what respiratory pathogens are present in each of the study participants both to expand our knowledge of the epidemiology of mild paediatric CAP in the current era as well as to permit sensitivity analyses; it is common to have viral-bacterial pulmonary coinfection, but logic would dictate that the probability of bacterial infection is higher in a child with no viral/atypical pathogens detected than in a child with a positive NPS for a viral pathogen.4.3 Randomization and group allocation. Dr. Thabane’s Biostatistics Unit at St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton will organize participant randomization using a centralized computer system accessible by phone 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. A randomization list stratified by centre will be generated such that participants can be assigned at random to one of the two study groups in a 1:1 ratio. The randomization will be blocked using random block sizes of 2, 4, and 6. The blocks will be of random sizes to provide another layer of protection to the blinding process, so that neither the RAs nor the investigators know into which groups the participants are randomized.4.4 Proposed methods for protecting against other sources of biasTo reduce the possibility of selection bias, all children who are diagnosed with CAP in the EDs of MCH and CHEO will be screened and approached to participate. It will be substantially harder to recruit potential participants who present in the middle of the night; this may introduce bias if those children are different than those who present during the day and early evening. We will attempt to minimize this threat to validity by contacting potential participants who present during the night at home the next day. Randomization and allocation will proceed as described above. As it is impossible to precisely match the taste and appearance of the placebo to the amoxicillin suspension, we have planned a two-series medication system (‘series A’ and ‘series B’) to prevent unblinding by ensuring that all participants change medications after 5 days. 4.5 Participant follow-up4.5.1 Frequency and duration of follow-up. Outcome data will be collected both by the participants’ caregivers in a symptom diary (previously pilot-tested) and by the RA. Diary forms will inquire to symptoms and signs relevant to the secondary outcomes (see 4.6.2, ‘Secondary outcomes’, below); caregivers will be asked to fill out a diary form daily for the 10 days post-enrolment. The RA will contact the participants three times (day 3-5, day 7-10, and one month after enrollment) to verify clinical stability, to reinforce adherence to the diary, and to troubleshoot problems. The first telephone contact is critical to ensure that no participants with persistent fever might possibly be randomized to short-course therapy; parents will also be reminded to contact the RA should they develop fever after day 4 and any participant with persistent/recrudescent illness will be invited to be assessed by a co-investigator. As noted above, any study participant with persistent fever >72h after beginning the study medication will be re-assessed as necessary and will complete at least 10 days of (open-label) amoxicillin. The phone call at 7-10 days will be used to verify the absence of recrudescent illness and to collect data in the event that the caregiver does not fully complete the symptom diary. 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ADDIN EN.CITE.DATA (45). Our definition was created using explicit criteria to ensure transparency and maximize the generalizability of the results. However, to optimize the appropriateness of the definition, the criteria are somewhat complex; this is to ensure that ‘failure’ in the trial would be associated with a clinical scenario that would merit a change in overall management, even if that change was as little as a requirement for additional follow-up by the treating clinician. The first criterion of the definition states ‘significant improvement’ in respiratory symptoms; this will be assumed to be present if the participant’s caregiver opines that the child has no functional limitation resulting from any residual dyspnoea/increased work of breathing. This was written in this way because the first iteration of this criterion in the pilot study stated ‘complete resolution’; there was one child who had very mild increased work of breathing at the follow-up visit and as such was judged to have ‘failed therapy’, though no further antimicrobials or follow-up was deemed necessary by the treating clinician. The second criterion notes that more than a single spike of fever is required for ‘failure’ to avoid erroneous conclusions resulting from an errant thermometer reading; two participants in the pilot ‘failed’ therapy because of a single spike of fever not leading to any management change. Fevers of unknown aetiology will be presumed to be associated with bacterial respiratory illness, but participants with fevers due to other discernible causes, whether viral (new respiratory illness documented by a NPS positive for a virus not present at the time of initial enrolment, clinical croup, stomatitis/herpangina, hand-foot-mouth disease, gastroenteritis with positive stool results, conjunctivitis, meningoencephalitis, viral hip synovitis, peri-or myocarditis, hepatitis) or bacterial (cellulitis and other soft tissue infections, septic arthritis/osteomyelitis, meningitis, urinary tract infection with positive urinalysis, or cholecystitis) would be considered to have met clinical cure criteria. Clearly, admission to hospital – even if antimicrobial treatment does not need to be changed – is not conducive to short-course therapy and merits a decision of treatment ‘failure.’For the measurement of the primary outcome, a physician or nurse, blinded to treatment allocation, will assess temperature, respiratory rate, and evident increased work of breathing in person using standardized protocols; these physical examination findings are the most important when assessing response to therapy. Lack of fever at home will be verified through assessment of the symptom diaries. Medical visits for persistent respiratory illness will be assessed by directly asking the participant’s caregiver; though caregiver report is not an entirely reliable modality, we believe that the sensitivity and specificity of the question ‘Did your child see another health professional because of a concern about respiratory illness within the past ten days?’ should be adequate.4.6.2 Secondary outcomes Secondary outcomes will include: the number of days the participant is absent from school; the total number of caregiver-days that their work is disrupted to care for the child; the number of days of mild drug adverse reactions; the incidence of severe drug adverse reactions (including anaphylaxis); participant adherence to the study medications; and recurrence of respiratory illness in the month after enrollment that leads to an ED visit or another antimicrobial course. We feel that these outcomes are important to children and their caregivers, especially for mild illness with an excellent prognosis. These will all be participant- or caregiver-report measures, and will be measured through participant documentation in the diaries; there will also be secondary verification by the research assistant at telephone contact on days 3-5 and 7-10 after enrollment. The symptom diary will include the following: temperature, dyspnoea (older participants), increased work of breathing, school attendance, caregiver absenteeism, days of mild diarrhoea, abdominal discomfort, vaginitis, rash) and severe (anaphylaxis) drug adverse reactions, and the number of missed medication doses. The caregivers will be instructed how to take their child’s temperature and assess increased work of breathing. Measuring adherence is a trial setting is not a simple matter. There are direct and indirect methods of assessing adherence; of these, direct methods are much more accurate. These include directly observed therapy or measurement of drug levels in blood, both of which are impractical for a study such as this, and would likely cause substantial inconvenience and/or pain to the study participants. Indirect methods include patient (or caregiver) (self-)report; pill counts; patient diaries; electronic medication monitors; rates of prescription refills; assessment of the patient’s clinical response; and measurement of physiologic markers ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Osterberg</Author><Year>2005</Year><RecNum>4110</RecNum><DisplayText>(78)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4110</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1388958955">4110</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Osterberg, L.</author><author>Blaschke, T.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>General Medicine Division, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. larso@stanford.edu</auth-address><titles><title>Adherence to medication</title><secondary-title>N Engl J Med</secondary-title><alt-title>The New England journal of medicine</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>N Engl J Med</full-title><abbr-1>The New England journal of medicine</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>N Engl J Med</full-title><abbr-1>The New England journal of medicine</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>487-97</pages><volume>353</volume><number>5</number><edition>2005/08/05</edition><keywords><keyword>Adolescent</keyword><keyword>Child</keyword><keyword>Chronic Disease/drug therapy</keyword><keyword>Drug Administration Schedule</keyword><keyword>*Drug Therapy/psychology/statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>HIV Infections/drug therapy</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Hypertension/drug therapy</keyword><keyword>Mental Disorders/drug therapy</keyword><keyword>*Patient Compliance/psychology/statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2005</year><pub-dates><date>Aug 4</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1533-4406 (Electronic)&#xD;0028-4793 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>16079372</accession-num><work-type>Review</work-type><urls><related-urls><url>;(78). Of these seven, we plan to use the first three, and the last four are not appropriate for the study (monitors are expensive, no refills are needed, and, in this case, neither patient assessment nor measurement of physiologic markers will inform adherence). 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ADDIN EN.CITE.DATA (83); consequently, the results of the trial will be positioned for rapid integration into clinical practice by Canadian physicians. To that end, both integrated and end-of-grant KT methods will be employed to facilitate communication of study results to healthcare practitioners – the main knowledge users for this study. The principal KT goal of the project will be, subsequent to the determination of whether short-course antimicrobial therapy is noninferior to the standard of care, to facilitate integration of trial results into current Canadian CAP guidelines and disseminate the information to the healthcare community. To do this, research team members will collaborate with established networks of clinicians experienced in the dissemination of clinical guidelines to healthcare practitioners, i.e. the Canadian Paediatric Society, Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada, Infectious Disease Society of America, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, and Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC). Given that PERC, a highly successful research network involving 15 children’s hospitals, represents a key group of knowledge users for this study, the executive was invited to the table in the design phase to ensure that the study objectives were relevant to Canadian emergency physicians and the study protocol was structured in such a way to optimize both internal and external validity. PERC has since unanimously endorsed the proposed study as one deserving of its support; furthermore, the study protocol was presented to the wider PERC community for more feedback at its annual meeting in 2014. The above-noted collaborations will be stimulated though presentation at major Canadian and American meetings (Pediatric Academic Societies, Canadian Paediatric Society, etc.); healthcare decision makers will be provided a one page synopsis of the results and invited to meet with study team members to discuss the implications. The end-of-grant KT strategy will also focus on publication of results in a peer-reviewed open-source journal (preferably a general paediatric journal because of the broad audience), oral and poster presentation at local and national meetings, and leveraging dissemination through the diverse professional networks of the research team members (the applicant and co-investigators are trained in disciplines including paediatric infectious disease, adult infectious disease, medical microbiology, clinical epidemiology, and paediatric emergency). In all cases, messages will be tailored to ensure relevance to the target audience. PART 4 – THE COMPLETED PILOT TRIALThe design of the pilot trial was very similar to that of the main follow-up study described in detail in Part 2. This section will outline aspects specific to the pilot and will describe problems encountered in the conduct of the pilot trial, with specific reference to design features that were modified for the main follow-up study; design features of the pilot that were not changed for the multicentre trial will not be listed, to avoid redundancy. Preliminary clinical and microbiologic results will be presented.ObjectiveThe main objective of the pilot trial was to investigate feasibility of the follow-up multicentre trial. The feasibility criteria of the pilot were:to enrol at least 70 participants during the 9-month study period; to complete the enrolment process within 90 minutes for >90% of participants; to ensure appropriate blood and respiratory specimens get sent in >90% of participants; to ensure >90% of participants complete the symptom diaries correctly; to contact >98% of participants at day 3-5 post-randomization; to ensure that 100% of contacted participants who do not defervesce by day 4 post-randomization are unblinded and are continued on a full 10 days of amoxicillin; to contact >95% of participants at day 7-10 post-randomization; to reassess >90% of participants at MCH at day 14-18 post-randomization; and to contact >90% of participants at ~ 1 month post-randomization. These feasibility objectives were constructed with reference to a seminal work on pilot studies ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Thabane</Author><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4193</RecNum><DisplayText>(84)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4193</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407360118">4193</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Thabane, L.</author><author>Ma, J.</author><author>Chu, R.</author><author>Cheng, J.</author><author>Ismaila, A.</author><author>Rios, L. P.</author><author>Robson, R.</author><author>Thabane, M.</author><author>Giangregorio, L.</author><author>Goldsmith, C. H.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. thabanl@mcmaster.ca</auth-address><titles><title>A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how</title><secondary-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</secondary-title><alt-title>BMC medical research methodology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1</pages><volume>10</volume><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>*Research Design/standards</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1471-2288 (Electronic)&#xD;1471-2288 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>20053272</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(84). Our primary concern was the ability of a research assistant to contact, recruit, and enroll sufficient numbers; consequently, the majority of feasibility criteria were drawn from the ‘resource projections’ domain (see section on ‘feasibility criteria’ in Part 5). As the only potential disadvantage of short-course antimicrobial therapy would be an increased risk of treatment failure, there are also feasibility criteria specifying minimum rates of loss to follow-up and/or switches to rescue standard-course therapy. There were no feasibility criteria addressing the appropriateness of the study population or that of the appropriateness of the selected outcomes; the revisions to the primary outcome that occurred over the course of the trial will be covered in detail below. The trial enrolled 61 participants over a 14-month period. We had predicted a higher number of potentially eligible participants on the basis of reviewing previous McMaster Children’s Hospital emergency department (ED) data; the difference between predicted and actual enrolment is due in large part to the vagaries of coding for children with lower respiratory tract infection and the differences in the way different clinicians diagnose ‘pneumonia’ (please see the relevant sections detailing issues with the clinical and microbiologic diagnosis of pneumonia in Part 1). However, the fact that we recruited fewer than 70 participants in a nine-month period will not preclude proceeding with the main trial; it will simply lead to a modification of expectations (and consequent budgetary changes). Recruitment for the first 12.5 months of the trial (21 Dec 2012 – 11 Jan 2014) can be summarized as follows: Diagnosed with mild CAP, aged 1-10 years: 435Ineligible: 277came to ED already on β-lactam:89no fever on history or exam: 65asthma flare or Hx severe asthma:28pneumonia dx in past month: 24allergy to penicillin: 21no resp symptom or sign: 14got ceftriaxone or macrolide in ED: 13significant PMHx: 11no CXR done: 06recent admission to hospital: 02previously in study:02unimmunized: 01from another region (visiting): 01Remainder eligible: 158Missed: 56Refused approach: 9Refused consent:38Enrolled: 55Feasibility criterion #2 was established because of concerns from ED staff that recruitment and enrolment would interfere with flow in the ED; however, no problems were encountered, primarily because the recruitment process took approximately half an hour. It was therefore assumed that this feasibility criterion was met, though detailed time records were not kept. 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ADDIN EN.CITE.DATA (24), we revised the inclusion criteria partway through the trial to permit enrolment of these infants. The exclusion criteria were not changed.Laboratory testing at enrolmentThe necessity of changing the protocol to include saliva-based C-reactive protein sampling (because of the rarity of venipuncture in these relatively well children) has already been discussed. RandomizationAs the pilot trial was based at a single centre, the study pharmacy was in charge of randomization; phone-based randomization was not used. At enrolment in the ED, all participants were given a five-day supply of amoxicillin. The study pharmacy then randomized the patient and provided either five more days of amoxicillin (different formulation) or five days of placebo; the participants returned to McMaster before day 5 to obtain the second set of medications. Clearly, this system will not work with multiple sites, and so it was modified for the main study.Proposed outcome measuresThe primary outcome in the pilot, composed of three separate items, was very similar to that described for the multicentre study, and was defined as follows:Complete resolution of dyspnoea, increased work of breathing, and tachypnoea, PLUSPersistent afebrile state from day 4 up to and including the day 14-18 follow-up visit, PLUSLack of a requirement for additional antibacterials or admission to hospital because of persistent/progressive lower respiratory illness during the 2 weeks after enrolment.It was modified slightly, however, as a few children who were essentially well at the time of follow-up were counted as ‘failures’, unnecessarily introducing noise into the analysis. Clinical trials should use outcomes that are relevant to individuals and clinicians; a definition of ‘failure’ that does not involve any requirement for a change of management or a change in prognosis should be modified. Item 1 was changed from ‘complete resolution’ to ‘significant improvement’, as there was one child who had mild residual increased work of breathing at day 14-18 but did not require any other medication and was normal at 1-month followup. Item 2 was expanded upon so that children with a documented new respiratory viral infection or an obvious alternate cause of fever would not be judged to have ‘failed’ antimicrobial therapy; the requirement for >1 fever spike was also added as there were two participants who had a single isolated fever spike during the second 5 days of therapy and were entirely well at day 14-18 follow-up. The effect of these changes will be to make antimicrobial failure more rare – and therefore increase the sample size requirements for the main study – but will decrease the ‘noise’ in the analysis, as non-meaningful ‘failures’ might occur by chance more commonly in one arm than another and produce spurious results in the main trial.Sample sizeThe sample size was selected in order to test study procedures, protocols, and resources, in an effort to verify that the feasibility criteria could be achieved. We did not calculate a sample size in order to estimate the variance of treatment failure for sample size calculations in the main follow-up study; please note that much of the literature on this topic has been developed for interval/ratio covariates that have normal distributions (see ‘Sample size considerations’ in Part 5).Pilot trial results (clinical)Blinding has been maintained; the following consist of the results in aggregate. The median age of participants was 2.64 years (Q1-Q3 1.64 – 4.33 y). As previously noted, only seven participants underwent venipuncture; the median peripheral WBC count was 13.5 x 109 cells/L (Q1-Q3 10.3 – 16.7 x 109 cells/L) and the median serum C-reactive protein level was 34.3 g/L (Q1-Q3 30.3 – 44.5 g/L). Though all participants were required to have a consolidation on chest radiograph as judged by the ED physician, only 60% of chest radiographs of study participants were reported to have findings consistent with pneumonia by the attending paediatric radiologist. Six children (10%) did not achieve clinical cure, as defined a priori. Two participants experienced significant clinical problems; one developed worsening respiratory symptoms and was hospitalized on the 4th day after enrolment and the other had persistent fever as so was given open-label amoxicillin to finish 10 days of therapy. The other four participants who did not achieve cure had less significant clinical illness: one had residual very mild work of breathing at day 14-18, one had recrudescent respiratory symptoms on day 8 and so was prescribed additional antibacterials (but had a new respiratory viral infection documented on repeat nasopharyngeal sampling), one had a single spike of fever on day 11 (but was well at followup), and one had a single spike of fever or day 17 (but was well at followup). Were we to follow the recommendations set out by Cocks and Torgerson, despite the fact that their theory was developed for use with interval/ratio outcome measures, the only scenario that would preclude proceeding with the main follow-up study would be if all 6 ‘failures’ occurred in the short-course antimicrobial treatment arm, as the risk difference would be 0.2 (lower bound of 80% CI 0.11, higher than the selected margin of 0.075) ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Cocks</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4209</RecNum><DisplayText>(85)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4209</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407757294">4209</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Cocks, K.</author><author>Torgerson, D. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.</auth-address><titles><title>Sample size calculations for pilot randomized trials: a confidence interval approach</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>197-201</pages><volume>66</volume><number>2</number><keywords><keyword>*Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Evidence-Based Medicine/standards</keyword><keyword>Female</keyword><keyword>Great Britain</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Male</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Practice Guidelines as Topic/*standards</keyword><keyword>*Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>Research Design</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>23195919</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(85). However, as two-thirds of these ‘failures’ were not clinically significant, and we have subsequently modified the definition of the primary outcome, we feel justified in continuing with the multicentre trial.Pilot trial testing results (microbiologic)Of 57 NPS specimens from participants in the pilot available for analysis, 33 (58%) were positive for at least one virus, with 2/30 positive for 2 viruses. Over half the samples (n=31, 55%) had high-level S. pneumoniae colonization (> 4 log copies/mL); this positivity rate is very similar to that seen in a recent observational study of children with CAP defined using clinical and radiographic parameters ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Chappuy</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4121</RecNum><DisplayText>(21)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4121</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1390076781">4121</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Chappuy, H.</author><author>Keitel, K.</author><author>Gehri, M.</author><author>Tabin, R.</author><author>Robitaille, L.</author><author>Raymond, F.</author><author>Corbeil, J.</author><author>Maspoli, V.</author><author>Bouazza, N.</author><author>Alcoba, G.</author><author>Lacroix, L.</author><author>Manzano, S.</author><author>Galetto-Lacour, A.</author><author>Gervaix, A.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Child and Adolescent Department, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. helene.chappuy@nck.aphp.fr</auth-address><titles><title>Nasopharyngeal carriage of individual Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes during pediatric radiologically confirmed community acquired pneumonia following PCV7 introduction in Switzerland</title><secondary-title>BMC Infect Dis</secondary-title><alt-title>BMC infectious diseases</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMC Infect Dis</full-title><abbr-1>BMC infectious diseases</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMC Infect Dis</full-title><abbr-1>BMC infectious diseases</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>357</pages><volume>13</volume><edition>2013/08/01</edition><dates><year>2013</year></dates><isbn>1471-2334 (Electronic)&#xD;1471-2334 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>23899390</accession-num><work-type>Multicenter Study</work-type><urls><related-urls><url>;(21). Just under half (15 of 31, 48%) specimens with high-level S. pneumoniae colonization were also positive for a virus.Unsurprisingly, only 2 (4%) were positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Both of these were also positive for a virus, and neither of these were accompanied by high-level S. pneumoniae colonization. Not a single specimen was positive for the other atypical pathogens found more commonly in adults (Chlamydophila and Legionella spp). There were 8 (14%) NPS specimens that were not positive for any respiratory pathogens tested for in the study.Other problems encountered in the pilot trialIf enrolment is to be optimized, missing potentially eligible participants and refusal of consent need to be kept to a minimum. Missing participants was extremely common in the early stages of the pilot, primarily because all recruitment was dependent on ED staff notifying the research assistant that a potential participant was present in the department; not only were there not sufficient resources to enable the permanent presence of a study team member in the ED, but all potential participants must be diagnosed by an ED physician as having CAP to be eligible. Optimizing ED-study team communication was achieved by repeatedly approaching the numerous health care professionals (attending staff, nurses, trainee MDs, etc.) who work in the ED, posting relevant notices, and feeding back missed notifications. The original protocol was also clarified and expanded to permit the research assistant to approach potential participants in their homes after being discharged home on amoxicillin given by the ED physician; this was most useful for children who were discharged in the early hours of the morning.The most common reason for refusing consent was an unwillingness to return for the measurement of the primary outcome, especially for those who did not live in proximity to the hospital; there were also parents concerned that fewer days of antibiotics would have decreased efficacy. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done about the former, as it would be extremely difficult to induce physicians to visit participants in their home for a three-minute clinical examination. There is also little to be done about the latter, as there is still a widespread assumption among both health-care professionals and laypeople that taking an antimicrobial is essentially a zero-risk medical intervention, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. We are currently planning another trial exploring methods to better communicate the adverse events (including perturbation of the microbiome and colonization with resistant pathogens, among others) associated with antibacterial therapy to caregivers; however, the results from this trial will not be ready by the time the larger follow-up trial begins. PART 5 – SELECTED METHODOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR NON-INFERIORITY STUDIESAssay sensitivityThe issue of assay sensitivity (proper design of a trial, enabling it to distinguish an effective intervention from an ineffective one) is critical but often underappreciated in the appraisal of non-inferiority studies. A ‘successful’ superiority study that demonstrates that one treatment is superior to another has, by definition, adequate assay sensitivity ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). A superiority study that does not demonstrate that one treatment is superior to another may or may not have sufficient assay sensitivity; this study is properly referred to as having an ‘indeterminate’ result and the conclusions drawn from it depend on study characteristics, most importantly on whether or not the study was adequately powered to detect a clinically significant difference ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Altman</Author><Year>1995</Year><RecNum>4181</RecNum><DisplayText>(86)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4181</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405791296">4181</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Altman, D. G.</author><author>Bland, J. M.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Medical Statistics Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London.</auth-address><titles><title>Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence</title><secondary-title>BMJ</secondary-title><alt-title>Bmj</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMJ</full-title></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMJ</full-title></alt-periodical><pages>485</pages><volume>311</volume><number>7003</number><keywords><keyword>Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>Data Interpretation, Statistical</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*standards</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>*Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>1995</year><pub-dates><date>Aug 19</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0959-8138 (Print)&#xD;0959-535X (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>7647644</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(86). In contrast, a ‘successful’ non-inferiority study that demonstrates no difference between one treatment and the reference standard may or may not have sufficient assay sensitivity and therefore may or may not be valid. This is clearly a major issue as poor assay sensitivity essentially invalidates a non-inferiority study, regardless of the care taken designing all other aspects of the trial. The draft guidance of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that “[it is critical] to know…that the active control had its expected effect in the trial” and indicates that one should reference previous placebo-controlled studies of the reference treatment ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). This same document notes that – if only a single non-inferiority study is to be completed – setting alpha at 0.001 constitutes additional evidence suggesting that a false conclusion of non-inferiority is unlikely ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81).It is difficult to guarantee assay sensitivity for our proposed trial. As described extensively in the background, there is substantial inter-observer variability in the diagnosis of pneumonia and – even when this diagnosis is made – it is even harder to reliably determine if the infection is caused by a bacterial pathogen. This issue is important because the inclusion of too many participants with purely viral CAP would dramatically lower assay sensitivity, as neither short- nor standard-course antimicrobials have any effect on non-bacterial infections. We have attempted to optimize assay sensitivity by creating a definition of CAP with adequate face validity and that is consistent with others previously used in the literature. The other method that will be used to ensure study validity will be the use of sensitivity analyses; as noted in the protocol, comparisons will be made between short- and standard-course antimicrobial therapy in subgroups of participants who would be most likely to have bacterial infections (ie. alveolar infiltrates on chest radiograph, elevated C-reactive protein values, high-level pneumococcal colonization in nasopharyngeal specimens). The only way to absolutely guarantee that all participants had bacterial infections would be to include only those with blood cultures positive for CAP-causing pathogens; this would not only be infeasible (due to the extreme rarity of concomitant bacteraemia) but would result in the necessity of including those with more severe disease – who would not be eligible for short-course antimicrobial therapy anyway.The potential inclusion of children without bacterial infections is not the only threat to assay sensitivity. As the FDA states, it is important to compare the efficacy of the reference treatment in the trial to past RCTs ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81); however, there are no known placebo-controlled trials of antibiotics for paediatric CAP in the literature. It is not even known what proportion of untreated paediatric bacterial CAP will self-resolve in the current era. There are records documenting mortality and morbidity from pneumonia in the pre-antibiotic era, but to use those to estimate baseline antibiotic efficacy would undoubtedly greatly exaggerate the impact of these medications, as the baseline health of children is much better today than in the early twentieth century.Determination of the non-inferiority marginIt is obvious that the selection of the non-inferiority margin has a significant impact on trial outcome. It is also clear that clinical considerations should inform the determination of the margin; if the margin is judged as unacceptably wide to clinicians, a ‘successful’ non-inferiority trial will have little impact on practice. However, selection of the margin based solely on the clinical experience of the principal investigator should probably be avoided, despite how commonly this has been done in the past ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Wangge</Author><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4183</RecNum><DisplayText>(87)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4183</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405795553">4183</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Wangge, G.</author><author>Klungel, O. H.</author><author>Roes, K. C.</author><author>de Boer, A.</author><author>Hoes, A. W.</author><author>Knol, M. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Division of Pharmacoepidemiology &amp; Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.</auth-address><titles><title>Interpretation and inference in noninferiority randomized controlled trials in drug research</title><secondary-title>Clin Pharmacol Ther</secondary-title><alt-title>Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Clin Pharmacol Ther</full-title><abbr-1>Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Clin Pharmacol Ther</full-title><abbr-1>Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>420-3</pages><volume>88</volume><number>3</number><keywords><keyword>Data Interpretation, Statistical</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Pharmaceutical Preparations/*administration &amp; dosage/metabolism</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods</keyword><keyword>*Research Design</keyword><keyword>Therapeutic Equivalency</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year><pub-dates><date>Sep</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1532-6535 (Electronic)&#xD;0009-9236 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>20668448</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(87). The FDA draft statement also provides guidance relating to statistical considerations affecting the selection of the non-inferiority margin; note that its main concern seems to be – if the experimental treatment is found to be non-inferior to the standard therapy – that there is sufficient evidence to be reasonably confident the experimental treatment is also superior to placebo ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). If the margin was greater than the predicted effect of the standard treatment, for example, a trial could successfully demonstrate non-inferiority for an experimental treatment that is not superior to placebo. The FDA draft guideline first instructs investigators to review meta-analyses of clinical trials of the standard therapy compared to placebo to discern the pooled estimate of efficacy; if only single trials are available, they can be used, but obviously there will be much less precision in the estimates of efficacy. In the ‘fixed margin method’, the key parameter M1 is then identified as the upper bound (ie. most conservative estimate, which for the risk difference is the least negative value, and for the relative risk is the value closest to unity) of the 95% CI surrounding the point estimate of either the risk difference or the relative risk ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). This assumes, of course, that the effect of standard therapy in trial participants will be comparable to that in past placebo-controlled RCTs, and that the non-inferiority trial will be of comparable quality to these past trials (as ‘noise’ in less well-designed trials can obscure the ‘signal’ of effect). The upper bound of the CI is used instead of the point estimate because “half of all trials, even if the historical estimate is correct, would be expected to have a smaller effect, so that one could not be reasonably sure such an effect of the control was present” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). The noninferiority margin, M2, can then be calculated after determining what proportion of effect of the standard therapy is to be ‘preserved’. The suggested default proportion is 50%; some authors have recommended that greater proportions (resulting in smaller noninferiority margins) should be used when standard therapies have greater effects and when outcomes are serious and/or irreversible (eg. death), whereas smaller proportions can be used when the experimental treatment is expected to be safer or cheaper than standard treatment ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Wangge</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4184</RecNum><DisplayText>(88)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4184</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405801921">4184</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Wangge, G.</author><author>Roes, K. C.</author><author>de Boer, A.</author><author>Hoes, A. W.</author><author>Knol, M. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.</auth-address><titles><title>The challenges of determining noninferiority margins: a case study of noninferiority randomized controlled trials of novel oral anticoagulants</title><secondary-title>CMAJ</secondary-title><alt-title>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>CMAJ</full-title><abbr-1>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>CMAJ</full-title><abbr-1>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>222-7</pages><volume>185</volume><number>3</number><keywords><keyword>Antithrombins/therapeutic use</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods</keyword><keyword>*Research Design</keyword><keyword>Venous Thromboembolism/prevention &amp; control</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb 19</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1488-2329 (Electronic)&#xD;0820-3946 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>22908144</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(88). The formulae for determining M2 are the following ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Wangge</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4184</RecNum><DisplayText>(88)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4184</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405801921">4184</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Wangge, G.</author><author>Roes, K. C.</author><author>de Boer, A.</author><author>Hoes, A. W.</author><author>Knol, M. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.</auth-address><titles><title>The challenges of determining noninferiority margins: a case study of noninferiority randomized controlled trials of novel oral anticoagulants</title><secondary-title>CMAJ</secondary-title><alt-title>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>CMAJ</full-title><abbr-1>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>CMAJ</full-title><abbr-1>CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l&apos;Association medicale canadienne</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>222-7</pages><volume>185</volume><number>3</number><keywords><keyword>Antithrombins/therapeutic use</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods</keyword><keyword>*Research Design</keyword><keyword>Venous Thromboembolism/prevention &amp; control</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb 19</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1488-2329 (Electronic)&#xD;0820-3946 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>22908144</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(88): If comparing absolute risk reductions, M2 = (1-preserved effects)*M1*(-1)If comparing relative risks, M2 = eln(1/M1)(1-preserved effects)(It should be noted that these methods will often lead to the generation of different non-inferiority margins. Absolute risk reductions (presented as number needed to treat) can be more useful for decision-making by clinicians, though relative risks are less susceptible to variation between studies.) If it is assumed that the failure rate of standard therapy is 5% and that of no therapy is 25% (ie. 75% of mild bacterial CAP in children will resolve of its own accord without any treatment), then the risk difference for standard therapy is -0.2; if 50% of the effect is desired to be preserved, then M2 for the proposed trial should be 0.1. However, there are no data to support this estimate of a 25% failure rate for no treatment; if the true failure rate was only 15%, then the M2 for the proposed trial would be 0.05. Estimates of child CAP-specific mortality from the pre-antibiotic era cannot be used to generate M1 since this would without doubt overestimate CAP-specific mortality in children today, leading to a far-too-large estimate of M1. We note the FDA draft statement explicitly states “where there is uncertainty about the historical effect size [of standard treatment]…it will usually be necessary to have more than one non-inferiority study to support effectiveness”, ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81) though its primary concern appears to be for ensuring appropriate approval of new drugs.Interestingly, the FDA draft statement notes that – because of the way that M2 is calculated – if the 95% CI for the point estimate of the effectiveness of the experimental treatment crosses M2, it does not necessarily mean that this therapy is clearly inferior to the control treatment. (In contrast, if the CI crosses M1, there is no evidence that the experimental therapy is superior to placebo.) It seems to endorse the post-hoc logic in some instances of, for example, “assuring 48% retention [of the control effect]” since the a priori selection of 50% retention of effect is entirely arbitrary ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4180</RecNum><DisplayText>(81)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4180</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1405790911">4180</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><secondary-authors><author>US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Guidance for industry non-inferiority clinical trials (draft)</title></titles><volume>2014</volume><number>19 July</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><publisher>Center for Drug Evaluation and Research</publisher><urls><related-urls><url>;(81). This would seem to be somewhat dangerous, especially given the repeated concern about methodologic problems leading to a type I error in non-inferiority studies (rather than a type II error in superiority studies).PART 6 – SELECTED METHODOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR PILOT STUDIESThere is no one accepted definition for a ‘pilot’ or ‘vanguard’ study, but most would agree that this type of smaller study is important prior to embarking on a large and expensive randomized clinical trial. There are innumerable reasons for conducting a pilot study, most of which aim to verify that the study as designed is appropriate and that the investigators have a realistic estimate of resources (both human and otherwise) needed to complete the main follow-up study ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>van Teijlingen E.R.</Author><Year>2001</Year><RecNum>4185</RecNum><DisplayText>(89)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4185</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407359084">4185</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>van Teijlingen E.R., Hundley V.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The importance of pilot studies</title><secondary-title>Social Research Update</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Social Research Update</full-title></periodical><pages>1-4</pages><number>35</number><dates><year>2001</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url>;(89). However, it is important to realize what the results of a pilot study can and should be used for. Feasibility criteriaAs the primary goal of a pilot study is to usually determine the feasibility of the follow-up main trial, these studies should usually have predetermined explicit feasibility criteria that will inform the decision to proceed with the larger trial. Interestingly, the importance of stating clear feasibility criteria has been highlighted in relatively few publications ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Thabane</Author><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4193</RecNum><DisplayText>(84)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4193</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407360118">4193</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Thabane, L.</author><author>Ma, J.</author><author>Chu, R.</author><author>Cheng, J.</author><author>Ismaila, A.</author><author>Rios, L. P.</author><author>Robson, R.</author><author>Thabane, M.</author><author>Giangregorio, L.</author><author>Goldsmith, C. H.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. thabanl@mcmaster.ca</auth-address><titles><title>A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how</title><secondary-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</secondary-title><alt-title>BMC medical research methodology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1</pages><volume>10</volume><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>*Research Design/standards</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1471-2288 (Electronic)&#xD;1471-2288 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>20053272</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(84). Additionally, we have not been able to find published literature (Thabane L, personal communication) addressing related methodologic questions that would appear to be critical, such as: how should feasibility criteria be selected? Are there certain key feasibility domains that should always be represented among the criteria for every pilot study? If a particular feasibility criterion is not achieved in a pilot trial, is there any way of objectively assessing whether planned modifications could result in a successful follow-up larger trial (or are there certain types of failures that would preclude any further application for funding). This lack seems quite curious, given that anecdotal experience would suggest that pilot data are essentially required to successfully receive significant amounts of funding for a randomized trial. Building upon a previously-established paradigm ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Thabane</Author><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4193</RecNum><DisplayText>(84)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4193</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407360118">4193</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Thabane, L.</author><author>Ma, J.</author><author>Chu, R.</author><author>Cheng, J.</author><author>Ismaila, A.</author><author>Rios, L. P.</author><author>Robson, R.</author><author>Thabane, M.</author><author>Giangregorio, L.</author><author>Goldsmith, C. H.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. thabanl@mcmaster.ca</auth-address><titles><title>A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how</title><secondary-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</secondary-title><alt-title>BMC medical research methodology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1</pages><volume>10</volume><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>*Research Design/standards</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1471-2288 (Electronic)&#xD;1471-2288 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>20053272</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(84), it seems reasonable to propose that pilot RCTs should all include feasibility criteria drawn from the following list:Appropriateness of study population. Do the inclusion and exclusion criteria adequately describe the population of interest? Are there participants who are technically eligible (or ineligible) that should not be? Appropriateness of outcomes. Is the primary outcome truly important? Are the instruments designed to measure the primary outcome able to be used efficiently and appropriately in the study population?Recruitment rate. Based on the eligibility criteria, is it reasonable to suppose that sufficient numbers will be recruited in a practical time-frame in order to assess a difference in the primary outcome between groups? If not, are there other outcomes that are important but more frequent? Can eligibility criteria be relaxed and yet still include only the population of interest?Resource projections. Will the resources – both human and otherwise – be sufficient to successfully conduct the trial or was the pilot obviously under-budgeted for? Is the infrastructure (especially information technology-related) adequate and workable in the study setting? Can study procedures actually take place within an appropriate time-frame? Are the co-investigators able to actually carry out their assigned tasks?Safety and ethics. Have any new safety problems been identified? Have any ethical issues arisen that were not foreseen?Sample size considerationsPlease note that the list in the previous section did not explicitly include feasibility criteria related to sample size projections. Some authorities would suggest that it is preferable to design the main study using parameters present in the literature, as point estimates of treatment effects in small studies can vary widely ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Thabane</Author><Year>2010</Year><RecNum>4193</RecNum><DisplayText>(84)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4193</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407360118">4193</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Thabane, L.</author><author>Ma, J.</author><author>Chu, R.</author><author>Cheng, J.</author><author>Ismaila, A.</author><author>Rios, L. P.</author><author>Robson, R.</author><author>Thabane, M.</author><author>Giangregorio, L.</author><author>Goldsmith, C. H.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. thabanl@mcmaster.ca</auth-address><titles><title>A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how</title><secondary-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</secondary-title><alt-title>BMC medical research methodology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>BMC Med Res Methodol</full-title><abbr-1>BMC medical research methodology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1</pages><volume>10</volume><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>*Research Design/standards</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1471-2288 (Electronic)&#xD;1471-2288 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>20053272</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(84). However, many authors have attempted to promulgate statistically appropriate ways of using pilot data to inform the sample size decision-making for the larger follow-up study. Some of these apply to ‘internal’ pilot studies, otherwise described as statistical analysis partway through a large study in an effort to gauge if original sample size calculations (ie. variance of the outcome of interest) were correct, and some apply to ‘external’ pilot studies, which are entirely separate from and precede the larger follow-up trial. Wittes and Brittain suggested that large trials should – halfway through enrollment – recalculate the variance of the outcome of interest; should the variance be higher than the original estimates, the overall sample size would need to be increased to maintain nominal power ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Wittes</Author><Year>1990</Year><RecNum>4198</RecNum><DisplayText>(90)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4198</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407710221">4198</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Wittes, J.</author><author>Brittain, E.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Biostatistics Research Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20817.</auth-address><titles><title>The role of internal pilot studies in increasing the efficiency of clinical trials</title><secondary-title>Stat Med</secondary-title><alt-title>Statistics in medicine</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>65-71; discussion 71-2</pages><volume>9</volume><number>1-2</number><keywords><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods</keyword><keyword>Research Design</keyword><keyword>*Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>1990</year><pub-dates><date>Jan-Feb</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0277-6715 (Print)&#xD;0277-6715 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>2345839</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(90). Sandvik et al. developed a formula to calculate appropriate internal pilot trial size for normally-distributed outcomes; this size is at minimum 20 and potentially much larger, as it depends on the estimates of the standard deviation (SD) of the outcome variable in the literature, sizes of previous trials, etc. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Sandvik</Author><Year>1996</Year><RecNum>4199</RecNum><DisplayText>(91)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4199</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407710965">4199</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Sandvik, L.</author><author>Erikssen, J.</author><author>Mowinckel, P.</author><author>Rodland, E. A.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Medstat Research A/S, Lillestrom, Norway.</auth-address><titles><title>A method for determining the size of internal pilot studies</title><secondary-title>Stat Med</secondary-title><alt-title>Statistics in medicine</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1587-90</pages><volume>15</volume><number>14</number><keywords><keyword>Bias (Epidemiology)</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>*Probability</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>*Sample Size</keyword></keywords><dates><year>1996</year><pub-dates><date>Jul 30</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0277-6715 (Print)&#xD;0277-6715 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>8855484</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>(SICI)1097-0258(19960730)15:14&lt;1587::AID-SIM279&gt;3.0.CO;2-F</electronic-resource-num></record></Cite></EndNote>(91) They note that their procedure – as for that of Wittes and Brittain – will affect the final estimate of treatment variance, which will change the significance level of the result ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Sandvik</Author><Year>1996</Year><RecNum>4199</RecNum><DisplayText>(91)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4199</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407710965">4199</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Sandvik, L.</author><author>Erikssen, J.</author><author>Mowinckel, P.</author><author>Rodland, E. A.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Medstat Research A/S, Lillestrom, Norway.</auth-address><titles><title>A method for determining the size of internal pilot studies</title><secondary-title>Stat Med</secondary-title><alt-title>Statistics in medicine</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1587-90</pages><volume>15</volume><number>14</number><keywords><keyword>Bias (Epidemiology)</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>*Probability</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/methods</keyword><keyword>*Sample Size</keyword></keywords><dates><year>1996</year><pub-dates><date>Jul 30</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0277-6715 (Print)&#xD;0277-6715 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>8855484</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>(SICI)1097-0258(19960730)15:14&lt;1587::AID-SIM279&gt;3.0.CO;2-F</electronic-resource-num></record></Cite></EndNote>(91). This effect was expected to be ‘small’; a later work by Friede and Kieser attempted to quantify the projected magnitude of this effect for different study designs ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Friede</Author><Year>2006</Year><RecNum>4200</RecNum><DisplayText>(92)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4200</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407712185">4200</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Friede, T.</author><author>Kieser, M.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Novartis Pharma AG, Biostatistics and Statistical Reporting, Basel, Switzerland. tim.friede@</auth-address><titles><title>Sample size recalculation in internal pilot study designs: a review</title><secondary-title>Biom J</secondary-title><alt-title>Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Biom J</full-title><abbr-1>Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Biom J</full-title><abbr-1>Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>537-55</pages><volume>48</volume><number>4</number><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials as Topic/*statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Data Interpretation, Statistical</keyword><keyword>Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Research Design/*statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2006</year><pub-dates><date>Aug</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0323-3847 (Print)&#xD;0323-3847 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>16972704</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(92). Some authors have proposed simpler ways of calculating the appropriate size of a pilot study, either internal or external, with the ultimate goal of predicting SD/variance of the main follow-up study. Lancaster et al. referred to the (unreferenced) ‘rule of thumb’ stating that an n=30 is often sufficient for pilot trials ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Lancaster</Author><Year>2004</Year><RecNum>4201</RecNum><DisplayText>(93)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4201</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407750935">4201</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Lancaster, G. A.</author><author>Dodd, S.</author><author>Williamson, P. R.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK. g.lancaster@liv.ac.uk</auth-address><titles><title>Design and analysis of pilot studies: recommendations for good practice</title><secondary-title>J Eval Clin Pract</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of evaluation in clinical practice</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Eval Clin Pract</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of evaluation in clinical practice</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Eval Clin Pract</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of evaluation in clinical practice</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>307-12</pages><volume>10</volume><number>2</number><keywords><keyword>Great Britain</keyword><keyword>Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>*Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>*Research Design</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2004</year><pub-dates><date>May</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1356-1294 (Print)&#xD;1356-1294 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>15189396</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(93); Julious suggested that including 12 participants per treatment arm would be sufficient to gauge the projected variance in the larger follow-up trial ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Julious</Author><Year>2005</Year><RecNum>4202</RecNum><DisplayText>(94)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4202</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407751427">4202</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Julious, S.A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Sample size of 12 per group rule for a pilot study</title><secondary-title>Pharmaceut Statist</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Pharmaceut Statist</full-title></periodical><pages>287-291</pages><volume>4</volume><dates><year>2005</year></dates><urls></urls></record></Cite></EndNote>(94). Sim and Lewis did not overtly find fault with these recommendations but demonstrated quite elegantly the variability inherent in estimating SDs using small samples and alluded to the potential utility of an inflation factor, “the factor by which the SD derived from the pilot study should be increased to be x% confident of achieving at least the nominal power in the main study”; this is simply the ratio of the upper x% CI of the estimate of the pilot SD and the observed pilot SD ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Sim</Author><Year>2012</Year><RecNum>4208</RecNum><DisplayText>(95)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4208</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407752867">4208</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Sim, J.</author><author>Lewis, M.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK. j.sim@keele.ac.uk</auth-address><titles><title>The size of a pilot study for a clinical trial should be calculated in relation to considerations of precision and efficiency</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>301-8</pages><volume>65</volume><number>3</number><keywords><keyword>Bias (Epidemiology)</keyword><keyword>Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Data Interpretation, Statistical</keyword><keyword>Efficiency</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods/statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>*Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2012</year><pub-dates><date>Mar</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>22169081</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(95). Interestingly, one of the foundation concepts of their manuscript – that one should project the SD of the follow-up study to be close to the upper limit of the CI of the SD of the pilot study – was articulated almost 20 years earlier by Browne ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Browne</Author><Year>1995</Year><RecNum>4206</RecNum><DisplayText>(96)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4206</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407752725">4206</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Browne, R. H.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Research Department, Dallas 75219, USA.</auth-address><titles><title>On the use of a pilot sample for sample size determination</title><secondary-title>Stat Med</secondary-title><alt-title>Statistics in medicine</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>Stat Med</full-title><abbr-1>Statistics in medicine</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>1933-40</pages><volume>14</volume><number>17</number><keywords><keyword>Clinical Trials as Topic/*statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Monte Carlo Method</keyword><keyword>Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Reproducibility of Results</keyword></keywords><dates><year>1995</year><pub-dates><date>Sep 15</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>0277-6715 (Print)&#xD;0277-6715 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>8532986</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(96). Sim and Lewis concluded by noting that using slightly different methodologies, pilot sample sizes of at least 55 are likely to be optimal for generating reliable estimates for the follow-up trial if the outcome variable is interval/ratio and potentially many more patients may be required when the outcome of interest is nominal or ordinal ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Sim</Author><Year>2012</Year><RecNum>4208</RecNum><DisplayText>(95)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4208</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407752867">4208</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Sim, J.</author><author>Lewis, M.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK. j.sim@keele.ac.uk</auth-address><titles><title>The size of a pilot study for a clinical trial should be calculated in relation to considerations of precision and efficiency</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>301-8</pages><volume>65</volume><number>3</number><keywords><keyword>Bias (Epidemiology)</keyword><keyword>Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Data Interpretation, Statistical</keyword><keyword>Efficiency</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods/statistics &amp; numerical data</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>*Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2012</year><pub-dates><date>Mar</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>22169081</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(95). The foundation of the approach espoused by Cocks and Torgerson is different; they recommend selecting a pilot trial sample size large enough to produce a reasonably precise estimate of the treatment effect ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Cocks</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4209</RecNum><DisplayText>(85)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4209</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407757294">4209</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Cocks, K.</author><author>Torgerson, D. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.</auth-address><titles><title>Sample size calculations for pilot randomized trials: a confidence interval approach</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>197-201</pages><volume>66</volume><number>2</number><keywords><keyword>*Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Evidence-Based Medicine/standards</keyword><keyword>Female</keyword><keyword>Great Britain</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Male</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Practice Guidelines as Topic/*standards</keyword><keyword>*Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>Research Design</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>23195919</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(85). Their method involves construction of a one-sided 80% CI around the point estimate of effect and, if the upper limit for a superiority study excludes a clinically significant difference, proceeding with the main follow-up study would not be indicated ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Cocks</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4209</RecNum><DisplayText>(85)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4209</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407757294">4209</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Cocks, K.</author><author>Torgerson, D. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.</auth-address><titles><title>Sample size calculations for pilot randomized trials: a confidence interval approach</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>197-201</pages><volume>66</volume><number>2</number><keywords><keyword>*Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Evidence-Based Medicine/standards</keyword><keyword>Female</keyword><keyword>Great Britain</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Male</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Practice Guidelines as Topic/*standards</keyword><keyword>*Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>Research Design</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>23195919</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(85). They note that this procedure is only feasible if the variance of the main outcome variable is known; one might hypothesize that this would be true for only a minority of situations. After working through examples, they conclude that an appropriate ‘rule of thumb’ would be 9% of the projected sample size of the main study, or 20 participants, whichever is larger ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Cocks</Author><Year>2013</Year><RecNum>4209</RecNum><DisplayText>(85)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>4209</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="deds20xe32sxdme0ff3v5adc0vv2sxz0af2t" timestamp="1407757294">4209</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Cocks, K.</author><author>Torgerson, D. J.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.</auth-address><titles><title>Sample size calculations for pilot randomized trials: a confidence interval approach</title><secondary-title>J Clin Epidemiol</secondary-title><alt-title>Journal of clinical epidemiology</alt-title></titles><periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></periodical><alt-periodical><full-title>J Clin Epidemiol</full-title><abbr-1>Journal of clinical epidemiology</abbr-1></alt-periodical><pages>197-201</pages><volume>66</volume><number>2</number><keywords><keyword>*Confidence Intervals</keyword><keyword>Evidence-Based Medicine/standards</keyword><keyword>Female</keyword><keyword>Great Britain</keyword><keyword>Humans</keyword><keyword>Male</keyword><keyword>*Pilot Projects</keyword><keyword>Practice Guidelines as Topic/*standards</keyword><keyword>*Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic</keyword><keyword>Research Design</keyword><keyword>Sample Size</keyword><keyword>Statistics as Topic</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year><pub-dates><date>Feb</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1878-5921 (Electronic)&#xD;0895-4356 (Linking)</isbn><accession-num>23195919</accession-num><urls><related-urls><url>;(85). PART 7 – CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONSCommunity-acquired pneumonia is clearly an important problem for Canadian children, their caregivers, and clinicians. The proposed trial will likely provide important information relating to the optimal duration of therapy for mild CAP – however, as detailed in the previous sections, many relevant questions remain unanswered. Refining the criteria for diagnosis of pneumonia is critically important for clinicians, trialists, and epidemiologists. Almost all of the many additional modalities outlined in detail in previous sections require additional evaluation in diagnosis- or outcome-based studies to better gauge their potential contributions to the management of children with suspected CAP. We are about to begin one such study to systematically investigate the performance characteristics of both salivary C-reactive protein measurement and nasopharyngeal pneumococcal genomic loads in children with lower respiratory tract infections admitted to hospital; we have postulated that both of these indices will be higher in children with bacterial pneumonia than in those with viral bronchiolitis, but this hypothesis requires experimental verification. Additionally, even if high-level nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization is ‘in truth’ associated with pneumococcal CAP, it will not help to diagnose paediatric bacterial CAP caused by other organisms, such as group A Streptococcus – should assays be developed to measure these other pathogens as well? 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