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Time for a Change: Considering Regimen Changes in Analyses of Observational MDR/RR-TB Treatment Cohort Data
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: Received: 9 September 2020 / Approved: 13 September 2020 / Online: 13 September 2020 (11:20:13 CEST)
How to cite: Franke, M.; Mitnick, C. Time for a Change: Considering Regimen Changes in Analyses of Observational MDR/RR-TB Treatment Cohort Data. Preprints 2020, 2020090275 Franke, M.; Mitnick, C. Time for a Change: Considering Regimen Changes in Analyses of Observational MDR/RR-TB Treatment Cohort Data. Preprints 2020, 2020090275
Abstract
Randomized clinical trials represent the gold standard in therapeutic research. Nevertheless, observational cohorts of patients treated for multidrug-resistant (MDR) or rifampin-resistant (RR) tuberculosis (TB) also play an important role in generating evidence to guide MDR/RR TB Generally, summary exposure classifications (e.g., ‘ever versus never’, ‘exposed at baseline’) have been used to characterize drug exposure, in the absence of detailed longitudinal data on MDR-TB regimen These summary classifications, along with an absence of data on covariates that change throughout the course of treatment, constrain researchers’ ability to answer the most relevant questions while accounting for known This paper highlights the importance of regimen changes in improving inference from observational studies of longer MDR-TB treatment regimens and offers an overview of the data and analytic strategies required to do
Keywords
tuberculosis; epidemiology; drug-treatment; resistance; analysis
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Clinical Medicine
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