title: Sequential generalized likelihood ratio tests for vaccine safety evaluation.
abstract: The evaluation of vaccine safety involves pre-clinical animal studies, pre-licensure randomized clinical trials, and post-licensure safety studies. Sequential design and analysis are of particular interest because they allow early termination of the trial or quick detection that the vaccine exceeds a prescribed bound on the adverse event rate. After a review of the recent developments in this area, we propose a new class of sequential generalized likelihood ratio tests for evaluating adverse event rates in two-armed pre-licensure clinical trials and single-armed post-licensure studies. The proposed approach is illustrated using data from the Rotavirus Efficacy and Safety Trial. Simulation studies of the performance of the proposed approach and other methods are also given.
authors.affiliation: VA Palo Alto Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. meichiun@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Mei-Chiung
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: Tze Leung
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Joseph F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Heyse
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000187:drug effects; D017751:Safety Management; D014612:Vaccines / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines
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