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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Design, conduct, analysis and reporting of a multi-national placebo-controlled trial of activated protein C for persistent septic shock</title><author><name sortKey="Finfer, Simon" sort="Finfer, Simon" uniqKey="Finfer S" first="Simon" last="Finfer">Simon Finfer</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201, Missenden Road, Sydney, NSW 2050 Australia</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ranieri, V Marco" sort="Ranieri, V Marco" uniqKey="Ranieri V" first="V. Marco" last="Ranieri">V. Marco Ranieri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista-Molinette, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Thompson, B Taylor" sort="Thompson, B Taylor" uniqKey="Thompson B" first="B. Taylor" last="Thompson">B. Taylor Thompson</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff3">Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Bullfinch Building, Room 148, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Barie, Philip S" sort="Barie, Philip S" uniqKey="Barie P" first="Philip S." last="Barie">Philip S. Barie</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff4">Department of Surgery, P713A, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68 St, New York, NY 10065 USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Dhainaut, Jean Francois" sort="Dhainaut, Jean Francois" uniqKey="Dhainaut J" first="Jean-François" last="Dhainaut">Jean-François Dhainaut</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff5">Cochin Port Royal Hospital-Paris Descartes University, Paris, France</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Douglas, Ivor S" sort="Douglas, Ivor S" uniqKey="Douglas I" first="Ivor S." last="Douglas">Ivor S. Douglas</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff6">Denver Health and University of Colorado, Denver, USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="G Rdlund, Bengt" sort="G Rdlund, Bengt" uniqKey="G Rdlund B" first="Bengt" last="G Rdlund">Bengt G Rdlund</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff7">Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Marshall, John C" sort="Marshall, John C" uniqKey="Marshall J" first="John C." last="Marshall">John C. Marshall</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff8">Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, 4th Floor Bond Wing, Rm. 4-007, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8 Canada</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rhodes, Andrew" sort="Rhodes, Andrew" uniqKey="Rhodes A" first="Andrew" last="Rhodes">Andrew Rhodes</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff9">Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, St George’s Hospital, London, SW17 0QT UK</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">18839141</idno><idno type="pmc">2995439</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995439</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:2995439</idno><idno type="doi">10.1007/s00134-008-1266-6</idno><date when="2008">2008</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">000D42</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">000D42</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Design, conduct, analysis and reporting of a multi-national placebo-controlled trial of activated protein C for persistent septic shock</title><author><name sortKey="Finfer, Simon" sort="Finfer, Simon" uniqKey="Finfer S" first="Simon" last="Finfer">Simon Finfer</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201, Missenden Road, Sydney, NSW 2050 Australia</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ranieri, V Marco" sort="Ranieri, V Marco" uniqKey="Ranieri V" first="V. Marco" last="Ranieri">V. Marco Ranieri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista-Molinette, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Thompson, B Taylor" sort="Thompson, B Taylor" uniqKey="Thompson B" first="B. Taylor" last="Thompson">B. Taylor Thompson</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff3">Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Bullfinch Building, Room 148, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Barie, Philip S" sort="Barie, Philip S" uniqKey="Barie P" first="Philip S." last="Barie">Philip S. Barie</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff4">Department of Surgery, P713A, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68 St, New York, NY 10065 USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Dhainaut, Jean Francois" sort="Dhainaut, Jean Francois" uniqKey="Dhainaut J" first="Jean-François" last="Dhainaut">Jean-François Dhainaut</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff5">Cochin Port Royal Hospital-Paris Descartes University, Paris, France</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Douglas, Ivor S" sort="Douglas, Ivor S" uniqKey="Douglas I" first="Ivor S." last="Douglas">Ivor S. Douglas</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff6">Denver Health and University of Colorado, Denver, USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="G Rdlund, Bengt" sort="G Rdlund, Bengt" uniqKey="G Rdlund B" first="Bengt" last="G Rdlund">Bengt G Rdlund</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff7">Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Marshall, John C" sort="Marshall, John C" uniqKey="Marshall J" first="John C." last="Marshall">John C. Marshall</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff8">Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, 4th Floor Bond Wing, Rm. 4-007, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8 Canada</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rhodes, Andrew" sort="Rhodes, Andrew" uniqKey="Rhodes A" first="Andrew" last="Rhodes">Andrew Rhodes</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff9">Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, St George’s Hospital, London, SW17 0QT UK</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Intensive Care Medicine</title><idno type="ISSN">0342-4642</idno><idno type="eISSN">1432-1238</idno><imprint><date when="2008">2008</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>The role of drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DAA) in severe sepsis remains controversial and clinicians are unsure whether or not to treat their patients with DAA. In response to a request from the European Medicines Agency, Eli Lilly will sponsor a new placebo-controlled trial and history suggests the results will be subject to great scrutiny. An academic steering committee will oversee the conduct of the study and will write the study manuscripts. The steering committee intends that the study will be conducted with the maximum possible transparency; this includes publication of the study protocol and a memorandum of understanding which delineates the role of the sponsor. The trial has the potential to provide clinicians with valuable data but patients will only benefit if clinicians have confidence in the conduct, analysis and reporting of the trial. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Intensive Care Med</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Intensive Care Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0342-4642</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1432-1238</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Springer-Verlag</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Berlin/Heidelberg</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">18839141</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">2995439</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1266</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s00134-008-1266-6</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Special Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Design, conduct, analysis and reporting of a multi-national placebo-controlled trial of activated protein C for persistent septic shock</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Finfer</surname><given-names>Simon</given-names></name><address><phone>+61-2-96570348</phone><fax>+61-2-96570301</fax><email>sfinfer@george.org.au</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ranieri</surname><given-names>V. Marco</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Thompson</surname><given-names>B. Taylor</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff3">3</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Barie</surname><given-names>Philip S.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff4">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Dhainaut</surname><given-names>Jean-François</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff5">5</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Douglas</surname><given-names>Ivor S.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff6">6</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gårdlund</surname><given-names>Bengt</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff7">7</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Marshall</surname><given-names>John C.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff8">8</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rhodes</surname><given-names>Andrew</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff9">9</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label>Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201, Missenden Road, Sydney, NSW 2050 Australia</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label>Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista-Molinette, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy</aff><aff id="Aff3"><label>3</label>Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Bullfinch Building, Room 148, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 USA</aff><aff id="Aff4"><label>4</label>Department of Surgery, P713A, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68 St, New York, NY 10065 USA</aff><aff id="Aff5"><label>5</label>Cochin Port Royal Hospital-Paris Descartes University, Paris, France</aff><aff id="Aff6"><label>6</label>Denver Health and University of Colorado, Denver, USA</aff><aff id="Aff7"><label>7</label>Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden</aff><aff id="Aff8"><label>8</label>Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, 4th Floor Bond Wing, Rm. 4-007, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8 Canada</aff><aff id="Aff9"><label>9</label>Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, St George’s Hospital, London, SW17 0QT UK</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>7</day><month>10</month><year>2008</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>7</day><month>10</month><year>2008</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>11</month><year>2008</year></pub-date><volume>34</volume><issue>11</issue><fpage>1935</fpage><lpage>1947</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>14</day><month>12</month><year>2007</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>19</day><month>8</month><year>2008</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© Springer-Verlag 2008</copyright-statement></permissions><abstract><p>The role of drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DAA) in severe sepsis remains controversial and clinicians are unsure whether or not to treat their patients with DAA. In response to a request from the European Medicines Agency, Eli Lilly will sponsor a new placebo-controlled trial and history suggests the results will be subject to great scrutiny. An academic steering committee will oversee the conduct of the study and will write the study manuscripts. The steering committee intends that the study will be conducted with the maximum possible transparency; this includes publication of the study protocol and a memorandum of understanding which delineates the role of the sponsor. The trial has the potential to provide clinicians with valuable data but patients will only benefit if clinicians have confidence in the conduct, analysis and reporting of the trial. This special article describes the process by which the trial was developed, major decisions regarding trial design, and plans for independent analysis, interpretation and reporting of the data.</p><sec><title>Electronic supplementary material</title><p>The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00134-008-1266-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Severe sepsis</kwd><kwd>Septic shock</kwd><kwd>Drotrecogin alfa (activated)</kwd><kwd>Clinical trial methodology</kwd><kwd>Drug industry—ethics</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© Springer-Verlag 2008</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1"><title>Introduction</title><p>The incidence of severe sepsis is increasing and mortality rates remain high. Whilst the case fatality rate has decreased modestly, the overall number of deaths is still increasing [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>]. Severe sepsis affects approximately 10 ± 4% of ICU patients, and around 100 ± 50 persons per 100,000 population [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>]. The burden of disease and economic impact of sepsis are considerable and probably comparable to that of ischaemic heart disease [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">4</xref>].</p><p>As new treatments for patients with severe sepsis have proven remarkably elusive [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>], the publication of the PROWESS trial reporting that drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DAA) reduced mortality was met with considerable enthusiasm [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>]. Subsequently, much of the initial enthusiasm has waned and opinion over DAA has become polarized [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>]. At its annual review of DAA in February 2007, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) stated: “Taking all the available data together, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) considered that the benefit/risk balance of Xigris required additional clarification and that there was a need for another clinical trial to further prove the efficacy of Xigris in the target population….therefore a placebo-controlled study in patients … with severe sepsis and documented organ failure (e.g. MOD or vasopressor-dependent septic shock) when treated within a strictly defined time window, should be performed to assert the benefit/risk profile of Xigris.” [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>].</p><p>Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) agreed to sponsor the study and subsequently assembled an academic steering committee to advise on the design the trial and interpret its results. This article, written by the academic steering committee, describes the scientific and academic background to the study and is accompanied by publication of the full study protocol as an on-line supplement. Additionally, it presents the memorandum of understanding (MoU) delineating the relationship between the steering committee and the sponsor. The MoU recounts the processes by which the steering committee, the independent academic statistical centre (ASC) and the data monitoring committee (DMC) were established and formalizes the respective roles of the sponsor and these committees in the conduct of the trial. The processes and relationships described in the MoU are intended to ensure that the study will be designed, conducted, and analysed to the highest possible scientific standards, and be reported transparently. The primary goal for the SC is to supervise the design, conduct and analysis of a clinical trial that seeks to answer the crucial question: “Does DAA reduce mortality in patients with severe septic shock?”</p></sec><sec id="Sec2"><title>Background</title><p>The PROWESS study, the first phase III placebo-controlled randomised controlled trial of DAA, was stopped early following a second planned interim analysis when 1,690 of the planned 2,280 subjects had been enrolled. The trial reported an absolute reduction in 28-day all-cause mortality of 6.1% (a relative risk reduction [RRR] of 19.4%) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>].</p><p>Although the overall trial result was statistically significant, an FDA advisory committee noted several concerns; in particular, approximately half way through recruitment the protocol had been amended and the drug manufacturing process changed and treatment with DAA appeared more beneficial after these changes (Fig. <xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">1</xref>).<fig id="Fig1"><label>Fig. 1</label><caption><p>Cumulative mortality rate over time in the PROWESS trial. <italic>Solid black lines</italic>, drotrecogin alfa (activated) group; <italic>solid grey lines</italic>, placebo group. The amended version of the protocol was introduced at<italic> Line A</italic>, first interim analysis occurred at<italic> Line B</italic> and the second interim analysis at<italic> Line C</italic>. (Reproduced from Critical Care Medicine 2004;32(12):2388 with permission)</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="134_2008_1266_Fig1_HTML" id="MO1"></graphic></fig></p><p>Additionally, the FDA advisory committee evaluated the treatment effect within subgroups and concluded that there was no apparent benefit in subjects at lower risk of death as indicated by lower APACHE II scores or in those patient with single organ dysfunction at baseline [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>].</p><p>The FDA advisory committee split 10:10 on whether DAA should be approved for clinical use [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>]. The FDA received statistical advice that the variable treatment effect observed over the course of the trial would be expected in approximately 8% of clinical trials and that the trial results did not appear to be due to the mid-trial protocol amendment or the change in the drug manufacturing process [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>]. On 21 November 2001, the FDA licensed DAA but only for the treatment of patients with severe sepsis and a high risk of death (as determined, for example, by the APACHE II score), and requested additional studies in children and in adult patients with severe sepsis and a lower risk of death [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]. In Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) authorized DAA to be used for the treatment of adult patients with severe sepsis with multiple organ failure when added to best standard care; this authorization was subject to annual review [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec3"><title>The additional trials requested by the FDA</title><p>Two additional placebo-controlled trials have been conducted. The ADDRESS study in adult patients with severe sepsis who were at a lower risk of death was stopped early after 2,640 participants had been enrolled (Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>]. The independent DMC estimated the likelihood of demonstrating a reduction in 28-day mortality to be less than 5%. Within the ADDRESS Trial mortality data were available for 321 subjects (12.3%) who had a baseline APACHE II score of 25 or more, the subgroup that appeared to benefit in PROWESS; within this subgroup, 28-day mortality was 29.5% in those assigned to DAA versus 24.7% in those assigned placebo, in-hospital mortality rates were 32.3 and 32.7%, respectively [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>]. Similarly, there was no reduction in mortality in the subgroup of patients within ADDRESS who had multiple organ dysfunction at baseline [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>].<table-wrap id="Tab1"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Results of placebo controlled randomised trials of drotrecogin alfa (activated)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Trial</th><th align="left">Actual/Planned recruitment</th><th align="left">% of planned recruitment</th><th align="left">% Assigned DAA who Died</th><th align="left">% Assigned Placebo who Died</th><th align="left">RR DAA vs. Placebo</th><th align="left">95% CI for RR</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">PROWESS All patients</td><td align="left">1,690/2,280</td><td align="left">74.1%</td><td char="." align="char">24.7%</td><td char="." align="char">30.8%</td><td char="." align="char">0.80</td><td char="–" align="char">0.69–0.94</td></tr><tr><td align="left">PROWESS APACHE II < 25</td><td align="left">873</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">18.8</td><td char="." align="char">19.0</td><td char="." align="char">0.99</td><td char="–" align="char">0.75–1.30</td></tr><tr><td align="left">PROWESS APACHE II > 24</td><td align="left">817</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">30.9%</td><td char="." align="char">43.7%</td><td char="." align="char">0.71</td><td char="–" align="char">0.59–0.85</td></tr><tr><td align="left">PROWESS single organ failure</td><td align="left">418</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">19.5%</td><td char="." align="char">21.2%</td><td char="." align="char">0.92</td><td char="–" align="char">0.63–1.35</td></tr><tr><td align="left">PROWESS > 1 organ failure</td><td align="left">1,271</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">26.5%</td><td char="." align="char">33.9%</td><td char="." align="char">0.78</td><td char="–" align="char">0.66–0.93</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS: All patients</td><td align="left">2,640/11,444</td><td align="left">23.1%</td><td char="." align="char">18.5%</td><td char="." align="char">17.0%</td><td char="." align="char">1.09</td><td char="–" align="char">0.92–1.28</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS APACHE II > 24</td><td align="left">321</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">29.5%</td><td char="." align="char">24.7%</td><td char="." align="char">1.22</td><td char="–" align="char">0.85–1.74</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS > 1 Organ failure</td><td align="left">862</td><td align="left">NA</td><td char="." align="char">20.7%</td><td char="." align="char">21.9%</td><td char="." align="char">0.94</td><td char="–" align="char">0.73–1.22</td></tr><tr><td align="left">RESOLVE</td><td align="left">477/6,000</td><td align="left">8.0%</td><td char="." align="char">17.2%</td><td char="." align="char">17.5%</td><td char="." align="char">0.98</td><td char="–" align="char">0.66–1.46</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><italic>DAA</italic> Drotrecogin alfa (activated), <italic>RR</italic> relative risk, 95% CI = 95% confidence interval, <italic>NA</italic> not applicable</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p><p>Between November, 2002 and April, 2005, the RESOLVE trial randomly assigned children with sepsis-induced cardiovascular and respiratory failure to receive placebo or DAA [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>]. The study was stopped after the second interim analysis when 477 participants had been enrolled when the independent DMC advised that the likelihood of demonstrating a beneficial effect of DAA was low (Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec4"><title>Evidence of harm</title><p>Whilst the efficacy of DAA is now the subject of much debate, the evidence that DAA increases the risk of clinically significant bleeding is consistent across trials (Table <xref rid="Tab2" ref-type="table">2</xref>). In ENHANCE, an open label clinical evaluation where DAA was given to patients who satisfied the entry criteria for the PROWESS Study, the serious bleeding rate was 5.5%, somewhat higher than that seen in the subjects who received DAA in the PROWESS study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>]. Outside clinical trials off-label use may be common and the incidence of bleeding may be increased. In one clinical series, the incidence of bleeding was 10.9% and patients who received DAA and suffered bleeding were more likely to die than those who received DAA and did not bleed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]; in the absence of a control group assessment of how much bleeding is attributable to the administration of DAA is not possible.<table-wrap id="Tab2"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Serious bleeding rates in clinical trials of drotrecogin alfa (activated)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Study</th><th align="left">Placebo <italic>n</italic> (%)</th><th align="left">DAA <italic>n</italic> (%)</th><th align="left"><italic>P</italic></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">PROWESS</td><td align="left">17(2.0)</td><td char="." align="char">30(3.5)</td><td char="." align="char">0.06</td></tr><tr><td align="left">PROWESS (CNS)</td><td align="left">1(0.1)</td><td char="." align="char">2(0.2)</td><td char="." align="char">NS</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS</td><td align="left">28(2.2)</td><td char="." align="char">51(3.9)</td><td char="." align="char">0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS (Day 0–6)</td><td align="left">15(1.2)</td><td char="." align="char">31 (2.4)</td><td char="." align="char">0.02</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ADDRESS (CNS)</td><td align="left">5(0.4)</td><td char="." align="char">6 (0.5)</td><td char="." align="char">0.72</td></tr><tr><td align="left">RESOLVE</td><td align="left">16(6.8)</td><td char="." align="char">16 (6.7)</td><td char="." align="char">0.97</td></tr><tr><td align="left">RESOLVE (Day 0–6)</td><td align="left">8(3.4)</td><td char="." align="char">98 (3.8)</td><td char="." align="char">0.83</td></tr><tr><td align="left">RESOLVE (CNS)</td><td align="left">5(2.1)</td><td char="." align="char">11 (4.6)</td><td char="." align="char">0.13</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ENHANCE</td><td align="left">–</td><td char="." align="char">155 (6.5)</td><td align="left">–</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p>Day 0–6: any serious bleeding event occurring during the DAA infusion period</p><p><italic>CNS</italic> central nervous system bleeding</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="Sec5"><title>Expert commentary and the implications for patients</title><p>Results of these studies and the split vote of the FDA advisory committee generated considerable controversy and calls for a confirmatory trial were made as early as 2002 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>]. The results of the ADDRESS and RESOLVE studies resulted in further calls for another placebo controlled trial [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>]. The recent Cochrane review and meta-analysis also questioned whether DAA should be used to treat patients with severe sepsis and a high risk of death, describing the evidence of efficacy as “very weak” [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>].</p><p>Furthermore, all three placebo-controlled trials were stopped early; the PROWESS study was stopped for efficacy, an approach that tends to overestimate the beneficial effects of treatments [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>].</p><p>With expert opinion divided on the balance of the benefits and risks of treating patients with DAA, clinical use has varied markedly between individual hospitals and clinicians with many eligible patients not receiving the drug [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR35">35</xref>]. The variable use of DAA has serious implications for patients; if DAA does reduce the risk of death then many patients are being denied an effective treatment and dying unnecessarily; conversely, if DAA does not reduce the risk of death, other patients are being treated with an ineffective and expensive agent that may cause clinically significant bleeding.</p></sec><sec id="Sec6"><title>Can an industry-sponsored trial resolve this controversy?</title><p>It seems clear that the current controversy can only be resolved by additional randomised placebo-controlled trials. As industry sponsored trials tend to report more favourable results than independent research [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR36">36</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>], and as some clinicians will be concerned by allegations that Lilly funded the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and used it to market DAA [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR39">39</xref>], the most credible trial for all concerned would not be funded or conducted by Lilly. Ideally, the trial would be conducted by independent academic clinical trialists who would be responsible for the data, conduct the statistical analysis, interpret the results and write the study manuscripts. One such investigator initiated and trial of DAA, funded by the French government, is planned to run in parallel with the Lilly-sponsored PROWESS-SHOCK trial [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR40">40</xref>]; both trials will focus on patients with persistent septic shock. These two trials in combination, be they positive or negative, have great potential to settle this controversy. As the PROWESS-SHOCK trial is being sponsored by Lilly at the behest of the EMEA, it will fall short of some commentators’, and our, vision of the most credible trial. With this in mind, the steering committee has sought to develop trial processes that can give clinicians and patients confidence in the trial results; we describe below the process by which the trial was developed, some of the major decisions made regarding trial design, and plans for an independent analysis and reporting of the data.</p></sec><sec id="Sec7"><title>The PROWESS-SHOCK Trial</title><sec id="Sec8"><title>Organizational structure and role of the study sponsor (Lilly)</title><p>Lilly has appointed a contract research organization (Parexel International) to be responsible for the day-to-day conduct of the study at each participating centre. At Lilly’s invitation, Drs Taylor Thompson and Marco Ranieri agreed to act as co-principal investigators for PROWESS SHOCK and co-chair an academic steering committee. Additionally, patient recruitment and protocol adherence will be scrutinized by a clinical coordinating centre; the clinical coordinating centre is located at Vanderbilt University and is commercially contracted by Lilly to provide these services. The steering committee is not privy to the terms of the contract but is satisfied that the study design prevents the clinical coordinating centre from introducing bias into the study. The statistical analysis will be performed by both Eli Lilly and an academic statistical centre and the safety of trial participants will be overseen by an independent data monitoring committee (DMC) (see Appendix 1), The members of the DMC will be reimbursed at an hourly rate ($250–$350/h) for participation in conference calls, and face to face meetings addressing data monitoring issues related to the PROWESS-Shock trial. The relationship between Lilly and the study committees is governed by a signed MoU (see text box).<table-wrap id="Taba"><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><tbody><tr><td align="left">Memorandum of Understanding</td></tr><tr><td align="left">1. The two principal investigators for the PROWESS–SHOCK study, Dr Thompson and Dr Ranieri, were invited to Co-Chair the committee by Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly). The principal investigators selected the other seven members of the steering committee (SC) in cooperation with Lilly. The principal investigators independently approved the members and had the right to veto members proposed by Lilly. Lilly representation in the SC will be limited to three ex officio non-voting members.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">2. The steering committee in collaboration with medical experts from Lilly designed the protocol for PROWESS-SHOCK, after Lilly had come to an initial agreement with the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to study patients with septic shock. Lilly provided analyses from their sepsis database to assist protocol design and provided input regarding statistical and regulatory aspects of the study. The two principal investigators led the protocol design meetings and approved the final protocol. Lilly did not have the right to veto any steps of this process.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">3. Dr. Ranieri recommended the chair of the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) and invited Dr. Slutsky to participate. Dr. Slutsky, the two principal investigators, and Lilly recommended members of this committee. Dr. Slutsky approved the final membership of the committee and had the right to veto members proposed by Lilly.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">4. The two principal investigators identified an academic statistical center that (subject to contractual agreement) will be responsible for reviewing and approving the statistical analysis plan, including all of the prospectively defined analyses for efficacy and safety. The plan will be filed with the FDA prior to the data being unblinded and at the same time it will be made freely and publicly available on an academic website. The academic statistical center will be responsible for conducting the primary analysis of the study data, and preparing the main study report for the SC to create the primary manuscript, and any additional analyses of the study data for subsequent manuscripts that in the view of the SC are material to understanding the efficacy and safety of drotrecogin alfa (activated). The academic statistical group will also be responsible for performing any post-hoc analyses requested by the steering committee. The members of the academic statistical center will have unfettered access to the full study database and to the randomisation code at the time the study randomisation code is broken. Eligible members of the academic statistical center will be co-authors on study manuscripts.<break></break>Statisticians appointed by Lilly will independently conduct the same analyses and any discrepancies will be resolved to the satisfaction of both parties. All documents required for regulatory purposes will be prepared by Lilly.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">5. The monthly SC meetings via teleconference and/or all face-to-face meetings will include an open session with Lilly experts and closed meetings independent of Lilly. The principal investigators are responsible for documenting any discussions that occur during the closed meetings of the SC.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">6. The sponsor has pledged to make public, after publication of the main paper, the final study report for the study which will include the following components: Introduction, Full Protocol, Investigational Plan, Statistical Methods, Disposition of Patients, Protocol Violations, Efficacy Evaluations, Safety Evaluations, and Tables of baseline and on study variables as well as analyses of all outcomes, relevant Figures and Graphics, and Final Conclusions. In the two years following publication of the main paper, the academic statistical group will provide additional analyses of the full database as requested by any member of the public and approved by the SC. The SC will develop procedures for reviewing public requests, judging the merit of these requests for additional analyses, and adjudicating duplicate requests for access to the database. Lilly will not have the right to veto any requests the SC approves. The cost of any additional analysis will be paid by the person or group requesting the analysis.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">7. The two principal investigators are responsible for the main publications from this study. There will be no scientific writer from Eli Lilly and Company for the principal manuscript or subsequent manuscripts approved by the SC. Appropriate co-authors from the sponsor will be included if they meet standard criteria for authorship. However, (a) the two principal investigators and the independent members of the steering committee will be responsible for final approval of the content and conclusions of the manuscripts; (b) the manuscripts will be submitted by the two principal investigators not by Lilly; (c) Lilly will not have the right to veto any steps of this process.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">8. Lilly will remunerate the members of the SC and DMC or their employing institutions for time spent performing committee activities and the amounts paid to each committee member will be stated at any major presentation of study results and in all manuscripts reporting study results that are authored by the SC. Time spent in preparation of manuscripts and lecture materials will not be remunerated by Lilly. Any lecture materials regarding the conduct or results of the study will be clearly identified as either prepared and approved by the Steering Committee or prepared by Lilly independent of the steering committee.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">9. Following publication of the primary manuscript SC and DMC members will have an absolute right to make public comment in any medium should they have concerns about the design, conduct or analysis of the study, or the interpretation or presentation of the study data.</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="Sec9"><title>Study design and goals</title><p>PROWESS-SHOCK will be a concealed, randomised placebo-controlled trial in which patients, care-givers, data collectors, statisticians, the study steering committee, and the clinical coordinating centre will be blinded. Whilst mindful of the results of the PROWESS, ADDRESS and RESOLVE studies, and Lilly’s obligations to drug registration agencies, the primary goal of the trial is to provide clinicians with robust evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of DAA in a clearly defined and clinically important patient population.</p><p>Proposed time-lines for the trial are to start recruitment in March 2008, complete recruitment in July 2010 and have 28-day mortality data available for public dissemination by the end of 2010.</p></sec><sec id="Sec10"><title>Choice and rationale for study population (Protocol Sect. 4.1)</title><p>The trial must satisfy regulatory requirements but equally it must provide clinicians with a clearly identifiable patient population to which the study results, be they positive or negative, can be applied. The EMEA obliged Lilly to complete a trial in patients “with severe sepsis and documented organ failure (e.g. multiple organ dysfunction [MOD] or vasopressor dependent septic shock)”. The steering committee has elected to make persistent vasopressor-dependent septic shock (defined as the continuous requirement for a vasopressor above a minimum threshold dose for at least four hours) the key inclusion criterion as such patients are clearly identifiable in clinical practice and appeared to benefit in the PROWESS trial. They also represent the majority of patients that clinicians who use DAA treat with the drug [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR41">41</xref>]. Standard definitions will be used to identify patients with severe sepsis [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR42">42</xref>]. In addition, treatment with the vasopressor must be continued through the time required to obtain informed consent and for the study pharmacist to be ready to prepare the study drug; patients’ whose septic shock has resolved during this time will not be eligible for randomisation. Furthermore, patients must have one further clinical sign consistent with hypoperfusion (Table <xref rid="Tab3" ref-type="table">3</xref>). The patients within the PROWESS study who most closely satisfied these inclusion criteria had a 28-day mortality of 29.3% for those assigned to DAA and 37.6% for those assigned placebo (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.63–0.96; Lilly—data on file). The inclusion criteria are listed in Table <xref rid="Tab3" ref-type="table">3</xref>; based on these inclusion criteria, we estimate a placebo mortality rate of 35%. Thus a study of 1,500 patients will provide 80% power to detect a relative risk reduction of 20% with an α of 0.05.<table-wrap id="Tab3"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Inclusion criteria</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><tbody><tr><td align="left">Inclusion criteria to obtain informed consent</td></tr><tr><td align="left">1. Aged ≥ 18 years old</td></tr><tr><td align="left">2. Must have an infection requiring intravenous antimicrobial therapy</td></tr><tr><td align="left">3. Must meet at least two of the four systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">4. Must have septic shock, defined as:</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (a) The patient must have received intravenous fluid resuscitation of ≥ 30 mL/kg administered within the time period spanning the 4 hours before and 4 hours after initiation of vasopressor therapy.</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (b) The patient must have a continuous requirement for at least one of the vasopressors listed below at the dose shown below for at least four hours:</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Norepinephrine ≥ 5 mcg/min</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Dopamine ≥ 10 mcg/kg/min</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Phenylephrine ≥ 25 mcg/min</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Epinephrine ≥ 5 mcg/min</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Vasopressin ≥ 0.03 units/min</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (c) The patient must meet at least 1 of the following criteria consistent with hypoperfusion during the 36 hours prior to study entry:</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Metabolic acidosis: base deficit ≥ 5.0 mmol/L or venous bicarbonate < 18 mmol/L or lactate ≥ 2.5 mMol/L.</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Urine output < 0.5 mL/kg h<sup>−1</sup> for 1 hour or a 50% increase in creatinine from a known baseline level.</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Acute hepatic dysfunction: AST or ALT > 500 IU/dL or bilirubin > 2 g/dL.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Inclusion criterion to proceed to randomisation</td></tr><tr><td align="left">5. Patients must remain vasopressor dependent throughout the pretreatment period and through the time of randomisation with the goal of maintaining a systolic blood pressure of approximately 90 mm Hg or higher or a mean arterial pressure of 65 mm Hg or higher with reasonable attempts made to wean the patient from vasopressor support, if applicable. (Note: dopamine at doses < 5 mcg/kg/min does not fulfil the criteria for vasopressor dependency.)</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p><p>As a further safeguard to ensure as far as possible that only eligible patients enter the trial, all patients will be screened by a clinical coordinating centre prior to randomisation. The staff of the clinical coordinating centre (CCC) will review a checklist of inclusion and exclusion criteria with site investigators or coordinators and must approve randomisation. Reasons for advising against randomisation will be recorded and reviewed monthly by the academic steering committee. As should be the case in any randomised controlled trial, treatment allocation will be concealed with local investigators and CCC staff blinded to the randomisation sequence so that decisions to include or exclude patients will be made with no knowledge of the patient’s potential treatment group. To minimize the risk of a centre effect and reduce the effect of an imbalance in concomitant treatments between the two groups, randomisation will be stratified by centre. As far as is practical, the use of concomitant therapies that are likely to influence the outcome from septic shock will be captured in the case report form and reported.</p><p>To reduce the risk of recruitment bias, participating centres conducting competing trials in patients with septic shock will use a predetermined random or sequential selection procedure for deciding which trial a patient enters when a patient is eligible for more than one trial.</p></sec><sec id="Sec11"><title>Short term and longer term outcomes (Protocol Sect. 6.1)</title><p>The primary outcome measure will be all-cause mortality in the intention-to-treat population (all patients randomised regardless of whether they received all or any study treatment) 28-days after randomisation. Survival and quality of life will be assessed for up to 180 days after randomisation. The secondary outcome measures are listed in the protocol.</p></sec><sec id="Sec12"><title>Adaptive design to allow an increase in sample size if overall mortality is lower than expected (Protocol Sect. 8.1.1)</title><p>Intensive care treatment of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock is changing and the case fatality rate is decreasing [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR43">43</xref>]. Against this background, an accurate prediction of the placebo group mortality is difficult. Therefore, the steering committee has made provision for the study statisticians to calculate the blinded mortality rate when approximately 750 patients have been enrolled, if the overall mortality rate is less than 30% the sample size may be increased by up to 500 subjects.</p></sec><sec id="Sec13"><title>Rationale for conservative efficacy stopping rule and absence of “futility” stopping rule (Protocol Sect. 8.2.8)</title><p>The DMC and the steering committee separately discussed the principles for interim analyses and stopping rules; both committees were in favour of very conservative stopping rules and that the trial should not be stopped for futility. The DMC recommended the final stopping rules for the study and these were accepted by the steering committee.</p><p>Two interim analyses are planned; the first after approximately one-third and the second after two-thirds of the planned number of subjects have completed 28 days of follow up. The DMC will be supplied with unblinded data; these data will not be seen by the steering committee or the sponsor. For the first interim analysis, no efficacy stopping rules are planned. We reasoned that only an implausibly large benefit of DAA over placebo would stop the trial after recruitment of 500 subjects and that such an effect should be regarded with great scepticism [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR44">44</xref>]. In addition, it is highly likely that the number of deaths accrued would fall below that recommended for stopping such a trial [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>]. It is clear that seemingly convincing treatment effects observed early in trials may not be sustained when trials are allowed to complete recruitment as planned [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR44">44</xref>].</p><p>As one experienced commentator stated “Decisions on early stopping (or not) need to be based on wise judgments interpreting the totality of available evidence, both in the current trial (considering primary and other efficacy outcomes and safety issues) and in other external evidence (especially from related trials). Accordingly, a statistical stopping boundary is only one useful objective component in an inevitably more challenging decision making process.” [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>] Additionally, in the event that the mortality in the DAA group was lower at the first interim analysis, we consider it ethical to continue the trial as the proportion of eligible patients receiving DAA outside the trial is likely to be much lower than the 50% within the trial [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>].</p><p>For the second interim analysis at 1,000 patients, an efficacy stopping guideline is proposed if DAA is superior to placebo at a p value of ≤0.001 and if at least 250 deaths have occurred [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>]. At this point, we reason that such an effect would be compelling and would be sufficient to convince many clinicians to change their practice.</p><p>We decided against a formal futility stopping guideline because of the importance to determine with as much certainty as possible whether DAA is ineffective and thus discontinue its use in usual care. However, the independent DMC may recommend the trial be stopped for safety concerns at any time.</p><p>A comparison of the PROWESS and PROWESS-SHOCK trials is presented in Table <xref rid="Tab4" ref-type="table">4</xref>.<table-wrap id="Tab4"><label>Table 4</label><caption><p>Comparison of PROWESS and PROWESS-SHOCK trials</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left"></th><th align="left">PROWESS</th><th align="left">PROWESS-SHOCK</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">Inclusion criteria</td><td align="left">Severe Sepsis (62.5% in shock)</td><td align="left">Persistent septic shock</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Initial fluid resuscitation</td><td align="left">≥500 mL</td><td align="left">≥30 mL/kg</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Primary end point</td><td align="left">28-day all-cause mortality</td><td align="left">28-day all-cause mortality</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Primary analysis</td><td align="left">“As Treated” conducted by Sponsor</td><td align="left">“Intention-to-treat” conducted by Independent ASC and Sponsor</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Selected secondary end points</td><td align="left">Changes in plasma D-dimer and Serum IL-6</td><td align="left">28 Day mortality by protein-C class; organ failure; 90 and 180 day mortality</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Planned sample size</td><td align="left">2,280 patients (stopped @ 2nd interim analysis for efficacy <italic>N</italic> = 1,690 patients)</td><td align="left">1,500 (option to enroll 2000 if aggregate mortality @ 750 patients <30%)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Efficacy stopping (By independent DMC)</td><td align="left">At both interim analyses Guidelines per O’Brien-Fleming; Lan and Demets</td><td align="left">No efficacy guidelines at 1st interim; consider stopping at 2nd interim if <italic>P</italic> ≤ 0.001 and ≥ 250 deaths overall</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p>* The “as treated” analysis included all patients who received the infusion for any length of time; <italic>ASC</italic> Academic Statistical Center</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="Sec22"><title>Safety monitoring (Protocol Sect. 6.2)</title><p>Site investigators are responsible for reporting all serious adverse events and any non-serious bleeding or thrombotic events that occur within 28 days of randomisation. After 28 days, only serious adverse events that the site investigator considers to be related to the study drug, the drug delivery system, or a protocol procedure are reported. The DMC will be provided with monthly reports regarding safety data. If after reviewing these reports the DMC has concern regarding the incidence of adverse or serious adverse events in either arm of the study, the DMC can request and will be granted an unscheduled review of unblinded safety data. The DMC will also review unblinded data at all scheduled interim analyses.</p></sec><sec id="Sec15"><title>Ethics of a placebo-controlled trial of licensed drug in high risk population: identifying study sites with equipoise/uncertainty</title><p>There are a number ethical issues and practical challenges in conducting a placebo controlled trial of a licensed drug within the current indication for use and in a vulnerable patient population. Central to their consideration is that the evidence in favour of DAA must now be considered equivocal, numerous respected commentators have called for another such trial [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>], and currently relatively few patients with severe sepsis receive DAA [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR35">35</xref>]. From an individual patient perspective, any patient for whom the treating clinician considers DAA to be clearly indicated or contra-indicated will be excluded from the trial, thus the trial will only recruit patients where the senior treating clinician has clinical equipoise or substantial uncertainty over the balance of the benefits and risks associated with treatment with DAA. An important criterion for the selection of trial centres is that the local clinicians are uncertain about the benefits and risks of treatment with DAA and consider it ethical to treat eligible patients with a blinded study drug that may be either DAA or placebo.</p><p>Another risk to the conduct of the trial is that clinicians may wish to treat patients who are deteriorating whilst receiving study drug with commercially available DAA; this risk will be minimized by selecting centres where clinicians are uncertain about the benefits and risks of treatment with DAA and where clinicians report that this uncertainty has resulted in minimal use of DAA. These aspects were assessed in a questionnaire as part of the participating centre evaluation, the document evaluating potential participating centres is reproduced in Appendix 2. Additionally, the physical properties of DAA mean that it is possible for caregivers to become “unblinded” to treatment allocation and this might theoretically influence the use of concomitant treatments (such as commercially available DAA) or willingness to continue active medical treatment. The use of commercially available DAA and the issuing of “DNR” orders will be monitored during the trial and reported.</p></sec><sec id="Sec16"><title>Maximizing clinician acceptance of the PROWESS SHOCK results</title><p>The controversy over the PROWESS study results has been documented elsewhere [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>]. We hope to reduce the risk of similar controversy following the current trial; we created conservative efficacy stopping guidelines to assure a more precise estimate of the overall treatment effect and reduce the concern that trials stopped early overestimate treatment effects [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR45">45</xref>]. The trial will use an academic clinical coordinating centre to assist investigators in recruiting appropriate patients and in following the protocol precisely. The clinical coordinating centre will serve as a resource for study procedures which should minimize the learning curve and its potential impact on the trial results [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR46">46</xref>]. Finally, we hope that publishing the trial protocol, the memorandum of understanding governing the relationship between Lilly and the study committees and full disclosure of all prior and present relationships relevant to the trial, together with plans for independent analysis of the data, we will provide clinicians and regulators with sufficient information to allow them to fully evaluate the conduct of the trial and to interpret the results.</p></sec><sec id="Sec17"><title>Summary</title><p>Although the initial report of the PROWESS study suggested a significant breakthrough in the search for treatments for patients with severe sepsis, the subsequent controversy surrounding the conduct of that trial and the subsequent negative trials, have left many clinicians uncertain whether to treat their patients with DAA or not. There have been a number of calls for another placebo controlled trial some of which have specifically called for a trial run by a not-for-profit organisation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]. Whilst Lilly will sponsor a new trial, the steering committee has put in place processes which it hopes will increase the transparency with which the trial is conducted so that the trial can provide robust evidence that will be acceptable to clinicians. This is an ethical imperative, as only by providing credible evidence and resolving this controversy can we serve the best interests of our patients.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material"><sec id="AppESM1"><supplementary-material id="d28e1516" content-type="local-data"><p>Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.
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PAREXEL is the contract research organization for this study.</p><p>PAREXEL and Lilly are in the process of selecting qualified investigators and investigative sites in select countries around the world. Please review the protocol highlights and complete and return the questionnaire if you are interested in participating in this study.</p><p>Investigator selection will be completed this fall. Patient enrollment will begin in the first quarter of 2008.</p><p><bold>Study drug</bold> drotrecogin alfa (activated) or placebo.</p><p><bold>Study objectives</bold> The study objectives are to investigate efficacy (28-day all-cause mortality) and safety in adult patients with septic shock that are treated with either drotrecogin alfa (activated) or placebo.</p><p><bold>Study design</bold> Patients will be randomly (1:1) assigned to either the drotrecogin alfa (activated) or placebo treatment group.</p><p>The study will enroll adult patients who meet the following criteria:<list list-type="order"><list-item><p>Evidence of an infection and the presence of SIRS</p></list-item><list-item><p>Presence of septic shock</p></list-item></list><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>The patient must have received ≥ 30 mL/kg intravenous fluid resuscitation</p></list-item><list-item><p>The patient must have a continuous requirement for vasopressor support for at least 4 hours at a minimum dose (Norepinephrine ≥ 5 mcg/min, or similar dose of dopamine, phenylephrine, epinephrine, or vasopressin)</p></list-item></list><list list-type="order"><list-item><p>At least one clinical sign consistent with hypoperfusion (sepsis-induced)</p></list-item></list><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>Metabolic acidosis (base deficit ≥ 5.0 mEq/L, venous bicarbonate < 18 mEq/dL or lactate ≥ 2.5 mMol/L)</p></list-item><list-item><p>Renal injury (urine output < 0.5 mL/kg/h for 1 hour or a 50% increase in creatinine)</p></list-item><list-item><p>Acute hepatic dysfunction (AST or ALT > 500 IU/dL or bilirubin > 2 g/dL).</p></list-item></list><list list-type="order"><list-item><p>Study drug infusion must begin within 24 h of septic shock onset (i.e. after initiation of vasopressor therapy) and within 36 h of any non-cardiovascular sepsis-induced organ dysfunction.</p></list-item></list></p><p>If you are not the proper person to review and complete this questionnaire, kindly forward this to the appropriate person at your institution.<graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="134_2008_1266_Figa_HTML" id="MO10"></graphic><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="134_2008_1266_Figb_HTML" id="MO11"></graphic><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="134_2008_1266_Figc_HTML" id="MO12"></graphic></p><p><bold>Conflict of Interest</bold> A statement by the authors concerning their financial relationship with regard to the subject of this paper is available as Electronic Supplementary Material.</p></sec></sec></app></app-group><fn-group><fn><p>This article is discussed in the editorials available at: doi:10.1007/s00134-008-1274-6; 10.1007/s00134-008-1302-6 and 10.1007/s00134-008-1303-5.
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