The Edoxaban Hokusai VTE PEDIATRICS Study: An open‐label, multicenter, randomized study of edoxaban for pediatric venous thromboembolic disease
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Little evidence is available for treatment of pediatric venous thromboembolism (VTE). Large randomized controlled trials are challenging in children. Current antithrombotic agents have many limitations, including nonoral administration and frequent monitoring. Edoxaban is an oral direct inhibitor of factor Xa without need of monitoring. In adults with VTE, edoxaban has shown to be effective and safe. OBJECTIVES: The Edoxaban Hokusai VTE PEDIATRICS Study is an open-label, randomized clinical trial to evaluate pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of edoxaban and whether edoxaban is noninferior to standard of care in treatment of pediatric VTE. METHODS: A goal of 274 patients will be recruited in 5 age categories. A multidose PK/PD assessment on day 5 in the first 12 patients of each age group is incorporated into this study. The primary composite efficacy outcome comprises symptomatic recurrent VTE, death due to VTE, and no change or extension of thrombotic burden. The principal safety end point is a combination of major and clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding. PK end points include apparent systemic clearance and volume of distribution of edoxaban. PD end points include prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, and anti-factor Xa level for the edoxaban treatment arm. RESULTS: To increase feasibility, the multidose PK/PD study is integrated in the phase 3 trial. In addition, thrombotic burden, which is a prognostic factor for post thrombotic syndrome in children, is one of the components of the primary composite efficacy outcome. CONCLUSION: This study will increase the level of evidence for treatment in pediatric VTE.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".