THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

PROMETRIKA team members make continuous learning a priority. As a statistician, it is important to keep up-to-date with the FDA’s current thinking on analytic approaches applied in clinical trials. In May 2021, the FDA published a draft guidance for industry, “Adjusting for Covariates in Randomized Clinical Trials for Drugs and Biological Products,” which provides recommendations for use of covariates in the analysis of randomized, parallel group clinical trials that are applicable to superiority trials and noninferiority trials.  I share some highlights and insights on this topic below.