1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140620203321

Autore

Rosenberg Michael J

Titolo

The agile approach to adaptive research [[electronic resource] ] : optimizing efficiency in clinical development / / Michael J. Rosenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2010

ISBN

1-282-54764-X

9786612547645

0-470-59968-5

0-470-59967-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Wiley series on technologies for the pharmaceutical industry

Disciplina

615/.19

Soggetti

Drug development

Pharmaceutical industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research: Optimizing Efficiency in Clinical Development; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Opportunity for Efficiency; The Adaptive Solution; An Industrial Success Story; Signs of Trouble Ahead; Converging Challenges; The Struggle to Replace Lost Revenues; Clinical Research Is the Key; Behind the High Costs of Clinical Development; High Costs and Increasing Prices; Growing Pressures Mandate Greater Efficiency; The High Risk of Current Development Practices; Economic Consequences of Faster Clinical Development; Thriving in a New Era; References

2 Defining and Extending the Adaptive ApproachThe Adaptive Concept; Knowledge, Time, and Decision Making; The Value of Early Knowledge; The Spectrum of Design and Operational Adaptations; Maximizing the Adaptive Approach: Agile Clinical Development; Measure Performance in Real Time; Metrics in Action; Right Information to the Right Eyes at the Right Time; Make Timely Decisions; Organize Work in Lean Processes; Rework in Clinical Studies; Backflow of Patient Data; Match Technology with Tasks; Objections to Adaptive Methods; Integrity and Validity; The Regulatory Environment

The Complexity of Clinical ResearchConclusion; References; 3 Design



Adaptations Part One: Finding the Right Dose; Background; Types of Design Adaptations; Order of Discussion; Dosing Nomenclature; Determining Maximum Safe Dose; Single Arm; Continual Reassessment Method; Other Bayesian Dose-Finding Methods; Determining Optimal Dose (Pruning); Multiple Arms; Improvements over Conventional Approaches to Dose Finding; Dose Selection in Practice; Optimizing Dose Selection; Minimizing Costs Versus Maximizing Information; Surrogate Endpoints; Conclusion; References

4 Design Adaptations Part Two: Additional Design ChangesSample-Size Reestimation; The Trouble with Planning Estimates; The High Cost of "Underbuilt" Studies; The Benefits of Reestimation and Rightsizing; Reestimation and Trial Stages; Rules to Restrict Reestimation; Adjusting Sample Size for Nuisance Parameters; Seamless Designs: Combining Multiple Phases; When to Consider Seamless Studies; Seamless Phase I/Phase II Trials; Seamless Phase II/Phase III Trials; Planning Issues in Seamless Trials; Phase I-II-III Designs; Adaptive Randomization; Response-Adaptive Randomization

Other Forms of Adaptive RandomizationOther Types of Design Adaptations; Noninferiority-to-Superiority Design; Adaptive Hypotheses and Subpopulations; Treatment Switching; Conclusions; References; 5 Operational Adaptations; Design and Operational Adaptations; The Nature and Significance of Operational Adaptations; Implementing Operational Adaptations; Enrollment and Other Site Issues; Data Quality; Monitoring; Site Closeout and Database Lock; Supporting Functions for Efficient Operations; The Bottom Line; References; 6 Agile Clinical Development; Benefits of Agile Development

A Development Example

Sommario/riassunto

Apply adaptive research to improve results in drug development The pharmaceutical industry today faces a deepening crisis: inefficiency in its core business, the development of new drugs. The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research offers a solution. It outlines how adaptive research, using already-available tools and techniques, can enable the industry to streamline clinical trials and reach decision points faster and more efficiently. With a wealth of real-world cases and examples, author Michael Rosenberg gives readers a practical overview of drug development, the problems inh



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974032603321

Autore

Townsend Robert

Titolo

Barriers to Household Risk Management : : Evidence from India / / Robert Townsend, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Tobacman, Xavier Gine, James Vickery, Petia Topalova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

9781475565478

147556547X

9781475512342

1475512341

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/195

Altri autori (Persone)

ColeShawn

GineXavier

TobacmanJeremy

TopalovaPetia

VickeryJames

Disciplina

332.1;332.152

Soggetti

Financial risk - India

Risk management - India

Actuarial Studies

Asset and liability management

Consumption

Corporate Finance and Governance

Economic Development: Financial Markets

Economics

Education

Education: General

Field Experiments

Finance

Finance: General

Financial Institutions and Services: General

Financial institutions

Financial Instruments

Industries: Financial Services

Institutional Investors

Insurance & actuarial studies

Insurance Companies

Insurance companies



Insurance

Investment Decisions

Liquidity

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

National accounts

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Pension Funds

Personal Finance

Portfolio Choice

Saving and Capital Investment

Saving

Wealth

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Insurance Contract Design and Summary Statistics; A. Product Description; B. Summary Statistics; III. Experimental Design; IV. Experimental Results; A. Andhra Pradesh; B. Gujarat: Video Experiments; C. Gujarat: Flyer Experiments; V. Discussion of Experimental Results; A. Price Relative to Actuarial Value; B. Trust; C. Liquidity Constraints; D. Financial Literacy and Education; E. Framing, Salience and Other Behavioral Factors; VI. Non-Experimental Evidence; A. Correlates of Insurance Purchase; B. Self-Reported Explanations for Non-Purchase

VII. Improving Household Risk Management: Tentative Lessons and ConclusionsReferences; VIII. Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly price sensitive, but widespread take-up would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We suggest contract design improvements to mitigate these frictions.