Assessing heterogeneity of treatment effect in multiple sclerosis trials

MP Sormani, J Chataway, DM Kent… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is heterogeneous with respect to outcomes, and evaluating possible
heterogeneity of treatment effect (HTE) is of high interest. HTE is non-random variation in the …

Observational studies of treatment effectiveness in neurology

T Kalincik, I Roos, S Sharmin - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The capacity and power of data from cohorts, registries and randomized trials to provide
answers to contemporary clinical questions in neurology has increased considerably over …

The impact of smoking cessation on multiple sclerosis disease progression

J Rodgers, T Friede, FW Vonberg, CS Constantinescu… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The negative impact of smoking in multiple sclerosis is well established; however, there is
much less evidence as to whether smoking cessation is beneficial to progression in multiple …

A two‐stage prediction model for heterogeneous effects of treatments

K Chalkou, E Steyerberg, M Egger, A Manca… - Statistics in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Treatment effects vary across different patients, and estimation of this variability is essential
for clinical decision‐making. We aimed to develop a model estimating the benefit of …

Precision medicine analysis of heterogeneity in individual‐level treatment response to amyloid beta removal in early Alzheimer's disease

M Pang, A Gabelle, P Saha‐Chaudhuri… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurological disorder with variability in
pathology and clinical progression. AD patients may differ in individual‐level benefit from …

Patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis: a prospective registry cohort study

A Lerede, J Rodgers, RM Middleton… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Registries have the potential to tackle some of the current limitations in determining the long-
term impact of multiple sclerosis. Online assessments using patient-reported outcomes can …

Synthesizing cross‐design evidence and cross‐format data using network meta‐regression

T Hamza, K Chalkou, F Pellegrini… - Research Synthesis …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In network meta‐analysis (NMA), we synthesize all relevant evidence about health
outcomes with competing treatments. The evidence may come from randomized clinical …

Bootstrapping the Cross-Validation Estimate

B Cai, F Pellegrini, M Pang, C de Moor, C Shen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cross-validation is a widely used technique for evaluating the performance of prediction
models. It helps avoid the optimism bias in error estimates, which can be significant for …

Combining randomized and non‐randomized data to predict heterogeneous effects of competing treatments

K Chalkou, T Hamza, P Benkert, J Kuhle… - Research synthesis …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Some patients benefit from a treatment while others may do so less or do not benefit at all.
We have previously developed a two‐stage network meta‐regression prediction model that …

Overall and patient-level comparative effectiveness of dimethyl fumarate and fingolimod: A precision medicine application to the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose …

G Simoneau, X Jiang, F Rollot, L Tian… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Comparing real-world effectiveness and tolerability of therapies for relapsing-
remitting multiple sclerosis is increasingly important, though average treatment effects fail to …