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Longitudinal Changes in Disability Rating Scale Scores: A Secondary Analysis Among Patients With Severe TBI Enrolled in the Epo Clinical Trial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2019

Julia S. Benoit ,
H. Julia Hannay ,
Jose-Miguel Yamal ,
David J. Francis ,
Imoigele Aisiku  and
Claudia Robertson
Julia S. Benoit*
Affiliation:
Texas Institute for Measurement Evaluation and Statistics (TIMES) and the Department of Basic Vision Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
H. Julia Hannay
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, TIMES, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Jose-Miguel Yamal
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
David J. Francis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, TIMES, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Imoigele Aisiku
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Claudia Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Julia S. Benoit, Texas Institute for Measurement Evaluation and Statistics (TIMES) and the Department of Basic Vision Sciences, University of Houston, 4849 Calhoun Road, STE 373, Houston, TX 77204-6022. E-mail: julia.benoit@times.uh.edu
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Abstract

Objectives: Long-term neurological response to treatment after a severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) is a dynamic process. Failure to capture individual heterogeneity in recovery may impact findings from single endpoint sTBI randomized controlled trials (RCT). The present study re-examined the efficacy of erythropoietin (Epo) and transfusion thresholds through longitudinal modeling of sTBI recovery as measured by the Disability Rating Scale (DRS). This study complements the report of primary outcomes in the Epo sTBI RCT, which failed to detect significant effects of acute treatment at 6 months post-injury. Methods: We implemented mixed effects models to characterize the recovery time-course and to examine treatment efficacy as a function of time post-injury and injury severity. Results: The inter-quartile range (25th–75th percentile) of DRS scores was 20–28 at week1; 8–24 at week 4; and 3–17 at 6 months. TBI severity group was found to significantly interact with Epo randomization group on mean DRS recovery curves. No significant differences in DRS recovery were found in transfusion threshold groups. Conclusions: This study demonstrated the value of taking a comprehensive view of recovery from sTBI in the Epo RCT as a temporally dynamic process that is shaped by both treatment and injury severity, and highlights the importance of the timing of primary outcome measurement. Effects of Epo treatment varied as a function of injury severity and time. Future studies are warranted to understand the possible moderating influence of injury severity on treatment effects pertaining to sTBI recovery. (JINS, 2019, 25, 293–301)

Keywords

Randomized clinical trialTreatment profilesNeurotraumaFunctional outcomeDRSLong-term functional recoveryInjury severityLongitudinal data analysis
Type
Special Section: Traumatic Brain Injury
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , March 2019 , pp. 293 - 301
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2019 

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