Development of Standard Scripts for Analysis and Programming Working Group –

White Papers Project

PhUSE WebinarJanuary 2015Mary Nilsson

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The Big Picture

PhUSE Computational Science Working Groups

Optimizing Use of Data Standards

Standard Scripts for Analysis and

Reporting

White Papers Project

Script Repository (4 Projects)

Communications Project

Emerging Technologies

Semantic Technologies Non-Clinical

Working Group Description

• Goal: Establish a platform for the collaborative development of program code to be used as analytical tools for clinical trial research, reporting, and analysis– Includes recommendations for analyses, tables,

figures, and listings– Process and guidelines for documentation and

management of scripts– Harness data standards whenever feasible

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• Current Leadership– Hanming Tu (Project Management)– Mary Nilsson (Industry co-lead, Steering Committee

Liaison)– Steve Wilson (FDA Liaison)– Mat Soukup (FDA Liaison)– Adrienne Bonwick, Mike Carniello, Sally Cassells,

Jean-Marc Ferran, Aiyu Li, Dirk Spruck, Eric Sun, Dante Di Tommaso (Project leaders)

Working Group Leadership

Vision: Fill the Gap on Analysis Standards

Data Collection Systems

Observed Datasets

Analysis Datasets

Tables, Figures

and Listings

Clinical Data Flow

Trial Design

PRM SDTM ADaM No TFL Stds Exist

Industry

Standards

Alignment

CDASH

TransCelerate (TAs)

Vision: Shared Reusable Code Library (Script Repository)

PhUSE Computational Science Working Groups

Optimizing Use of Data Standards

Standard Scripts for Analysis and

Reporting

White Papers Project

Script Repository (4 Projects)

Communications Project

Emerging Technologies

Semantic Technologies Non-Clinical

White Papers Project

• 3 white papers finalized– Vital Signs, ECGs, Labs - Central Tendency

• Finalized in October 2013

– Non-Compartmental Pharmacokinetics• Finalized in March 2014

– Demographics, Disposition, and Medications• Finalized October 2014

White Papers Project

• 2 white papers out for broad review– Vital Signs, ECGs, Labs – Outliers/Shifts– Adverse Events– Comments due 16 January 2015

• 2 white papers in progress– Hepatotoxicity– QT Studies

• 2 white papers planned– Analyses and Displays Associated with Questionnaire Data– Analyses and Displays for Events of Special Interest

Example Displays

Example Displays

Example Displays

Example Displays

• Measurements after stopping medication– Generally exclude, even for drugs with a long half-life

• Unplanned measurements– Generally exclude for central tendency analyses/displays,

include for scatterplot, shifts

• Units– May need both SI and CN units

• P-values and confidence intervals– Did not take a position, but provided a discussion

Example Recommendations

• White Papers– Review draft white papers, spread the word to elicit

additional reviewers (include your medical colleagues)– Spread the word on the final white papers– Implement the recommendations!– Need medical writing support

Help Wanted

How to Get Involved

• How to join the Working Group– Go to www.phusewiki.org, click “Join a Working Group”, see mailing list instructions,

join • “CSS-WG-Standard-Scripts” (Working Group), and/or • “CSS-WG-Standard-Scripts-WhitePapers” (White Papers Project), and/or • “CSS-WG-Standard-Scripts-Platform” (Repository Project), and/or • “CSS-WG-SS-WhitePaperReviewers” (not joining but will be notified when a white paper is

ready for review)

• How to review a white paper– Go to the PhUSE website, Computations Science (CS) Working Group (WG) section,

CS Deliverables Under Review tab to see all deliverables under review• http://www.phuse.eu/cs-deliverables-under-review.aspx

– Or, go to the PhUSE CS WG Standard Scripts wiki page, White Papers project pages• http://www.phusewiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG5_Project_08

Reference URLs

• PhUSE home: http://phuse.eu/

– Includes final white papers (under Publications)• PhUSE Wiki: www.phusewiki.org

– Includes process and qualifications guidelines, draft white papers

• PhUSE Standard Script Group: http://www.phusewiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Standard_Scripts

• PhUSE Repository: – http://code.phuse.com– https://code.google.com/p/phuse-scripts/wiki/yml_idx

Q&A

Communications

• Communications