Guest Editors:
Francesc Palau: Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona and CIBERER, Spain
Rima Nabbout: Hôpital Necker Enfants Maladesdisabled, France
Ralf-Dieter Hilgers: RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases presents a new Collection on Innovative Methodologies for Rare Diseases Clinical Trials.
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Within the EJP RD (European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases), Work Package (WP) 20, "Accelerating the validation, use and development of innovative methodologies tailored for clinical trials in RDs", recognizes and addresses methodological challenges in clinical trials for rare diseases. These challenges include gaps in knowledge of best practices and innovative methodologies. Several actions have been implemented to overcome these gaps.
On one hand, WP 20 seeks to validate and apply innovative statistical methodologies previously developed from three FP7-funded projects (ASTERIX, InSPiRe, and IDeAl) via three demonstration projects. Additionally, two innovative projects address additional needs for trials in limited populations. On the other hand, WP 20 strives to disseminate these state-of-the-art innovative methodologies in these five projects through different scientific webinars.
WP 20 is pleased to publish a series of papers focusing on these developments in clinical trials for rare diseases in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, which will also be linked to their respective webinars.
WP 20's ambition is to reach the widest possible audience in the field of clinical trials for rare diseases and to expand knowledge and research on these topics through these publications.
Real-world evidence (RWE) generated using real-world data (RWD) presents the potential to contextualize and/or supplement traditional clinical trials for regulatory approval of rare diseases (RDs). This system...
Many different clinical specialists provide care to patients with Turner syndrome (TS), who have highly variable clinical manifestations. Therefore, a national TS registry is essential to inform a cohesive app...
The conduct of rare disease clinical trials is still hampered by methodological problems. The number of patients suffering from a rare condition is variable, but may be very small and unfortunately statistical...
Recommendations for statistical methods in rare disease trials are scarce, especially for cross-over designs. As a result various state-of-the-art methodologies were compared as neutrally as possible using an ...
When assessing the efficacy of a treatment in any clinical trial, it is recommended by the International Conference on Harmonisation to select a single meaningful endpoint. However, a single endpoint is often ...
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Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
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