Elucidating vaccine efficacy using a correlate of protection, demographics, and logistic regression

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11110/24:10482362

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02197-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02197-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02197-3" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12874-024-02197-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Elucidating vaccine efficacy using a correlate of protection, demographics, and logistic regression

Original language description

BACKGROUND: Vaccine efficacy (VE) assessed in a randomized controlled clinical trial can be affected by demographic, clinical, and other subject-specific characteristics evaluated as baseline covariates. Understanding the effect of covariates on efficacy is key to decisions by vaccine developers and public health authorities. METHODS: This work evaluates the impact of including correlate of protection (CoP) data in logistic regression on its performance in identifying statistically and clinically significant covariates in settings typical for a vaccine phase 3 trial. The proposed approach uses CoP data and covariate data as predictors of clinical outcome (diseased versus non-diseased) and is compared to logistic regression (without CoP data) to relate vaccination status and covariate data to clinical outcome. RESULTS: Clinical trial simulations, in which the true relationship between CoP data and clinical outcome probability is a sigmoid function, show that use of CoP data increases the positive predictive value for detection of a covariate effect. If the true relationship is characterized by a decreasing convex function, use of CoP data does not substantially change positive or negative predictive value. In either scenario, vaccine efficacy is estimated more precisely (i.e., confidence intervals are narrower) in covariate-defined subgroups if CoP data are used, implying that using CoP data increases the ability to determine clinical significance of baseline covariate effects on efficacy. CONCLUSIONS: This study proposes and evaluates a novel approach for assessing baseline demographic covariates potentially affecting VE. Results show that the proposed approach can sensitively and specifically identify potentially important covariates and provides a method for evaluating their likely clinical significance in terms of predicted impact on vaccine efficacy. It shows further that inclusion of CoP data can enable more precise VE estimation, thus enhancing study power and/or efficiency and providing even better information to support health policy and development decisions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30303 - Infectious Diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Medical Research Methodology

ISSN

1471-2288

e-ISSN

1471-2288

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

30 April 2024

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

101

UT code for WoS article

001210809100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85191853703