Allowing for uncertainty due to missing and LOCF imputed outcomes in meta-analysis.

Abstract:

:The use of the last observation carried forward (LOCF) method for imputing missing outcome data in randomized clinical trials has been much criticized and its shortcomings are well understood. However, only recently have published studies widely started using more appropriate imputation methods. Consequently, meta-analyses often include several studies reporting their results according to LOCF. The results from such meta-analyses are potentially biased and overprecise. We develop methods for estimating summary treatment effects for continuous outcomes in the presence of both missing and LOCF-imputed outcome data. Our target is the treatment effect if complete follow-up was obtained even if some participants drop out from the protocol treatment. We extend a previously developed meta-analysis model, which accounts for the uncertainty due to missing outcome data via an informative missingness parameter. The extended model includes an extra parameter that reflects the level of prior confidence in the appropriateness of the LOCF imputation scheme. Neither parameter can be informed by the data and we resort to expert opinion and sensitivity analysis. We illustrate the methodology using two meta-analyses of pharmacological interventions for depression.

journal_name

Stat Med

journal_title

Statistics in medicine

authors

Mavridis D,Salanti G,Furukawa TA,Cipriani A,Chaimani A,White IR

doi

10.1002/sim.8009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-02-28 00:00:00

pages

720-737

issue

5

eissn

0277-6715

issn

1097-0258

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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