YES! Finally! If I'm understanding the article correctly, it seems that the main improvement of the 'platform trials' is that they trial multiple drugs in one trial, using a shared placebo group. The reason it's not done more: "Drug companies tend to want to avoid studies that allow their medicines to be compared so easily to one another".
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YES! Finally! If I'm understanding the article correctly, it seems that the main improvement of the 'platform trials' is that they trial multiple drugs in one trial, using a shared placebo group. The reason it's not done more: "Drug companies tend to want to avoid studies that allow their medicines to be compared so easily to one another".