This report screens all events from a domain by performing a Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel exact test on all 2 x 2 tables constructed from event incidence and treatment arm. Output is a table of multiplicity-adjusted p-values, an accompanying volcano plot of relative risk, and a SAS data set of indicator variables that can be used as input for other reports.
Note: This report should be considered as two different reports: DS Incidence Screen and MH Incidence Screen, depending on which domain is specified in the dialog.
Running this report for Nicardipine using default settings for medical history (MH) generates the Report shown below.
Refer to the AE Incidence Screen output description, keeping in mind the following important report differences in contrast with the example:
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Output (including section names) reflects other event (for example, disposition events or medical history terms), rather than adverse event, incidence
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There is no option to Perform Double FDR Adjustment
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You cannot explicitly specify a Group Level from the dialog. Instead, this report automatically searches for the presence of xxBODSYS (or alternatively xxCAT if xxBODSYS is not found) and uses this variable for output organization and filtering.
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Use the Domain option to specify whether to plot the distribution of either disposition (DS) or medical history (MH) events.
Terms are determined by the coding dictionary for the Event or Intervention domain of interest, typically these levels follow the MedDRA dictionary. You must indicate how each event is named and the level at which the event is considered. For example, selecting Reported Name reports the event specified by the actual event term as reported in the specified domain.
See Term Level for additional information.
The primary goal of clinical trials is to distinguish treatment effects when reporting and analyzing trial results. Treatments are defined by specific values in the treatment or comparison variables of the CDISC models. These variables are specified in this report using the Treatment or Comparison Variable to Use andTreatment or Comparison Variable options.
Available variables include Planned, which is selected when the treatments patients received exactly match what was planned and Actual, which is selected when treatment deviates from what was planned.
You can also specify a variable other than the ARM or TRTxxP (planned treatment) or ACTARM or TRTxxA (actual treatment) from the CDISC models as a surrogate variable to serve as a comparator. Finally you can select None to plot the data without segregating it by a treatment variable.
Analysis can consider all events or only those that emerge at specific times before, during, or after the trial period. For example, selecting On treatment events as the Event Type includes only those events that occur on or after the first dose of study drug and at or before the last dose of drug (+ the offset for end of dosing).
If you choose to Ignore available treatment emergent flags, the analysis includes all adverse events that occur on or after day 1 of the study.
By default, post-treatment monitoring begins after the patient receives the last treatment. However, you might want to specify an Offset for End of Dosing, increasing the time between the end of dosing and post-treatment monitoring for treatments having an extended half-life.
Check the Treatment end date is equivalent to the start date if the treatment end date (EXTENDTC) is missing from the data. In this case, it is assumed that all treatments were given on the same day and that the treatment start date can be used instead.
Filters enable you to restrict the analysis to a specific subset of subjects and/or adverse events, based on values within variables. You can also filter based on population flags (Safety is selected by default) within the study data.
If there is a supplemental domain (SUPPDS or SUPPMH) associated with your study, you can opt to merge the non-standard data contained therein into your data.
See Select the analysis population, Select saved subject Filter1, Merge supplemental domain, Additional Filter to include Events, and Additional Filter to Include Subjects
The Treatment Control Level is specified as either “Placebo” or “Pbo”, depending on the value found in your data, by default. However, if your control is defined differently you can use the text box to specify the control level is identified in your study.
You can opt to assess interventions across the entire study (specified by default). Alternatively, you can use the Trial Time Windows option to limit it to selected time points or intervals. By default, time is measured in days. However, you can change the Time Scale to measure time in weeks. This option is useful for assessing report graphics for exceptionally long studies.
You can also subdivide the subjects and run analyses for distinct groups by specifying one or more By Variables.
Stratification Variables segment the data into meaningful clusters and statistical tests such as the CMH exact test account for them. Such stratification is usually recommended when strata exist in your study, for example, by site.
The False Discovery Rate test is selected by default. You can use the Multiple Testing Method option to select alternative test protocols.
The Alpha option is used to specify the significance level by which to judge the validity of the summary statistics generated by this report. The meaning of alpha depends on the adjustment method that you select. Alpha can be set to any number between 0 and 1, but is most typically set at 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, or 0.10. The higher the alpha, the higher the error rate but also higher the power for detecting significant differences. You will need to decide on the best trade-off for your experiment.
Note that instead of performing multiple testing adjustments of the p-values, you can opt to simply specify a cutoff value for -log10(p-values) in order to select significant hypothesis tests. Using unadjusted p-values with a cutoff has the benefit of more expansive volcano plots, whereas adjusted p-values tend to squish points along the y-axis.Refer to -log10(p-Value) Cutoff for more information. Note: This option is available only when no multiple testing method is specified.
Use the X-Axis for Volcano Plot option to specify the parameter to be plotted on the x-axis of your volcano plots. The Color Theme option enables you to specify the color scheme of the report graphics.
Subject-specific filters must be created using the Create Subject Filter report prior to your analysis.