A randomised controlled trial comparing palate surgery at 6months versus 12months of age (the TOPS trial): a statistical analysis plan.

Cleft palate is among the most common birth abnormalities. The success of primary surgery in the early months of life is crucial for successful feeding, hearing, dental development, and facial growth. Over recent decades, age at palatal surgery in infancy has reduced. The Timing Of Primary Surgery for cleft palate (TOPS) trial aims to determine whether, in infants with cleft palate, it is better to perform primary surgery at age 6 or 12months (corrected for gestational age).The TOPS trial is an international, two-arm, parallel group, randomised controlled trial. The primary outcome is insufficient velopharyngeal function at 5years of age. Secondary outcomes, measured at 12months, 3years, and 5years of age, include measures ofspeech development, safety of the procedure, hearing level, middle ear function, dentofacial development, and growth. The analysis approaches for primary and secondary outcomes are described here, as are the descriptive statistics which will be reported. The TOPS protocol has been published previously.This paper provides details of the planned statistical analyses for the TOPS trial and will reduce the risk of outcome reporting bias and data-driven results.ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00993551 . Registered on 9 October 2009.

Cooper, Rachael (author)
Shaw, William (author)
Persson, Christina,1959Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för neurovetenskap och fysiologi, sektionen för hälsa och rehabilitering,Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Health and Rehabilitation(Swepub:gu)xperch (author)
Willadsen, Elisabeth (author)
Munro, Kevin J (author)
Williamson, Paula R (author)
Semb, Gunvor (author)
Walsh, Tanya (author)
Gamble, Carrol (author)
Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för neurovetenskap och fysiologi, sektionen för hälsa och rehabilitering (creator_code:org_t)

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