The perfect trial during a pandemic:

• Uses meaningful and efficient endpoints
• Discards poor treatments quickly
• Can cope with multiple treatments
• Minimizes burden on frontline staff

But foremost is adaptive.

Making sure that effective treatments reach patients quickly is particularly important in a new disease. Adaptive designs have the capability to react to the changing knowledge and multi-arm platform trials are an especially efficient way to evaluate the many treatment candidates.

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A brilliant example of this is the new RECOVERY trial. This national clinical trial aims to identify treatments that may be beneficial for people hospitalised with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.

Co-Investigator for the RECOVERY trial and Programme Leader at the BSU, Prof Thomas Jaki, says: “The RECOVERY trial is a great example of using efficient methods to bring benefit to patients and I am proud to be an active part in it.”

Find out more – www.recoverytrial.net