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Challenges in Platform Trials: Revisiting Traditional Approaches

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Platform trials allow new interventions to be added during the trial, enhancing efficiency in therapeutic research.
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Despite their potential, the number of new platform trials has declined post-COVID-19, with many failing to add new arms.
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Barriers to platform trials include complex legal arrangements and a clinical trial system incompatible with their design.
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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for a unified funding approach, which has since reverted to intervention-specific models.
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Sustainable funding mechanisms are essential to minimize platform trial failures and support the evaluation of multiple interventions.