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Median tmax [Regulatives / Guidelines]

posted by Helmut  – Vienna, Austria, 2013-02-19 18:49 (4864 d 04:43 ago) – Posting: # 10063
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Hi John,

are you are collector of ambiguities in guidances?

❝ For subjects who experience emesis post dose. The guideline stated emesis within 2x median Tmax. Can one use mean Tmax instead if the median value is not available?

Let’s see the wording:

Data deletion due to vomiting:

• We recommend that data from subjects who experience emesis during the course of a BE study for immediate-release products be deleted from statistical analysis if vomiting occurs at or before 2 times median Tmax. […]

So what’s “median t_max”? IMHO, there are two interpretations possible:

1. \(\small{\widetilde{t_\text{max}}}\) as stated in the RLD’s label. If have never seen it – only the bloody arithmetic mean \(\small{\overline{t_\text{max}}}\). In most cases the label gives a verbatim statement about the time of the maximum concentrations. In most NDAs only the mean is given.
   In European SmPCs and/or EPARs you find the \(\small{\widetilde{t_\text{max}}}\) sometimes.
   
2. The of t_max-values after the reference in the study – without the subject who vomited.

In my protocols I use #1 (if the median is known) or #2 otherwise. I don’t use (bad stat’s).

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