Medium matters: modeling the impact of solid medium performance on tuberculosis trial sample size requirements.
SETTING: Two-month solid medium culture conversion is a commonly used, if suboptimal, endpoint for phase 2 anti-tuberculosis treatment trials. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: To model the effect of the performance characteristics (sensitivity and contamination rate) of solid medium on required sample size for a two-arm clinical trial with 85% true (gold standard) culture conversion in the control and 95% in the experimental arm. RESULTS: Increasing sensitivity and decreasing contamination reduced the sample size from 239 subjects/arm (60% sensitivity, 30% contamination) to 138 subjects/arm (95% sensitivity, 1% contamination). CONCLUSION: Optimizing solid medium has significant potential to reduce sample size and increase the efficiency of tuberculosis clinical trials.
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- Tuberculosis
- Treatment Outcome
- Time Factors
- Sample Size
- Reproducibility of Results
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Microbiology
- Humans
- Endpoint Determination
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Tuberculosis
- Treatment Outcome
- Time Factors
- Sample Size
- Reproducibility of Results
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Microbiology
- Humans
- Endpoint Determination