Randomized clinical trials serve as the standard for clinical research and have contributed immensely to advances in patient care. Nevertheless, several shortcomings of randomized clinical trials have been noted, including the need for a large sample size and long study duration, the lack of power to evaluate efficacy overall or in important subgroups, and cost. These and other limitations have been widely acknowledged as limiting medical innovation.1 Adaptive trial design has been proposed as a means to increase the efficiency of randomized clinical trials, potentially benefiting trial participants and future patients while reducing costs and enhancing the likelihood of finding a true benefit, if one exists, of the therapy being studied.
Citado: Bhatt DL, Mehta C. Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials. N Engl J Med [Internet]. 2016 [citado 7 Nov 2017];375(1).
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