A new graphic for quality adjusted life years (Q-TWiST) survival analysis: The Q-TWiST plot

Jeff A. Sloan; Daniel J. Sargent; Jed Lindman; Cristine Allmer; Delfino Vargas-Chanes; Edward T. Creagan; James A. Bonner; Michael J. O'Connell; Robert J. Dalton; Kendrith M. Rowland; Burke J. Brooks; John A. Laurie

doi:10.1023/A:1014401516011

A new graphic for quality adjusted life years (Q-TWiST) survival analysis: The Q-TWiST plot

Jeff A. Sloan, Daniel J. Sargent, Jed Lindman, Cristine Allmer, Delfino Vargas-Chanes, Edward T. Creagan, James A. Bonner, Michael J. O'Connell, Robert J. Dalton, Kendrith M. Rowland, Burke J. Brooks, John A. Laurie

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One of the challenges of interpreting a Quality-adjusted time without symptoms of disease and toxicity (Q-TWiST) analysis is examining the sensitivity of conclusions that may be drawn to varying values of the utility coefficients for days with toxicity and days after disease progression. We present a graphic that parsimoniously displays the impact on median Q-TWiST survival across treatment groups of varying values of the utility coefficients. The goal of the graphic is to present a concise Q-TWiST analysis. We use Zhao and Tsiatis (Biometrika 1997; 84(2): 339-348) to adjust for the bias in Kaplan-Meier (K-M) estimates. The graphic contains bounds that approximate points for which statistical significance would be achieved by comparing the median Q-TWiST survival between treatment alternatives for each value of the utility coefficients. The plot may be generalized to compare Q-TWiST means, medians or percentiles across treatment groups. We demonstrate the application of the Q-TWiST plot through a re-analysis of a randomized phase III North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) clinical trial of recombinant Interferon-2α in patients with malignant melanoma. We explore alternative options to customize the graphic representation for other data sets drawn from several NCCTG clinical trials.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	37-45
Number of pages	9
Journal	Quality of Life Research
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014401516011
State	Published - 2002

Keywords

Kaplan-Meier estimates
Q-TWiST
Survival analysis

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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