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  • 标题:Improving the pre-screening of eligible patients in order to increase enrollment in cancer clinical trials
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  • 作者:Boris Campillo-Gimenez ; Camille Buscail ; Oussama Zekri
  • 期刊名称:Trials
  • 印刷版ISSN:1745-6215
  • 电子版ISSN:1745-6215
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 卷号:16
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:15
  • DOI:10.1186/s13063-014-0535-7
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:BioMed Central
  • 摘要:

    Background

    The performance of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is often hindered by recruitment difficulties. This study aims to explore the pre-screening phase of four prostate cancer RCTs to identify the impact of a systematic pre-selection of eligible patients for RCT recruitment.

    Methods

    The pre-screening of four RCTs opened at the Comprehensive Cancer Center in Rennes was analyzed retrospectively (French Genitourinary Tumor Group (GETUG) 14, 15, 16, and 17). Data were extracted from electronic multidisciplinary cancer (MDC) reports and manually completed by physicians and medical secretaries. These data were the main source of information for clinicians to discuss treatment alternatives during MDC sessions. The pre-screening decisions made by the clinicians during these MDC meetings were compared with those made after a systematic review of the MDC reports by a clinical research assistant (CRA). Any inconsistencies in decisions between the CRA and the MDC physicians were corrected by the principal investigator (PI).

    Results

    The pre-screening rate was 9.1% during the MDC meetings, while it was estimated to be 12.9% after the final review by the PI, and 29% after the systematic review by the CRA. The study showed that 77% and 67% of the MDC reports did not mention clinical and pathological Tumor, lymph node and metastasis classification of malignant tumors (TNM) staging, respectively, and that 35 of the CRA’s 47 proposals rejected by the PI concerned implicit information (not specified in the MDC reports). Only one patient was proposed by the PI, and none by the CRA.

    Conclusions

    These results confirm that pre-screening could be improved by a systematic review of the medical reports. They also highlight the fact that missing data in electronic MDC reports leads to over-enrollment of non-eligible patients, but not to over-exclusion of eligible patients. Thus, our study confirms the potential gain in using semi-automated pre-selection of MDC reports, in order to avoid missing out on patients eligible for RCTs.

    Trial registration

    The trials evaluated in this study were previously registered with clinicaltrials.gov (registration number: NCT00104741 webcite on 3 March 2005; NCT00104715 webcite on 3 March 2005; NCT00423475 webcite on 16 January 2007; and NCT00667069 webcite on 24 April 2008).

  • 关键词:Prostatic neoplasms; Randomized controlled trials as a topic; Patient selection; Decision support systems; Clinical; Patient pre-screening
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