Design of the master protocol platform trial and its application in related fields_Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

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GUAN Zhiyue , LIU Yan , ZHANG Jingjing , CHEN Ying , DAI Hengheng , ZHANG Xuecheng , HU Mingzhi ,  SHANG Hongcai

Dongzhimen Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, P.R.China;

Corresponding author：

SHANG Hongcai, Email: shanghongcai@126.com

Keywords：

Master protocol; Platform trial; Randomized controlled trial; COVID-19

DOI：

10.7507/1672-2531.202104005

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The master protocol platform trial is a trial in which multiple treatments or different combinations of treatments are consistently evaluated in the context of a single disease, possibly within several sub-studies for different disease subtypes, allowing multiple treatments to enter or exit the trial platform based on a certain decision algorithm. Compared with the traditional clinical trial design, the master protocol platform trial as a scientific innovative model of clinical trial can accelerate drug evaluation to deal with the contradiction between the awaited evaluation of numerous drugs and lack of effective therapy for diseases. By using the large-scale randomized controlled clinical trial for COVID-19 inpatients (RECOVERY) led by the University of Oxford in the UK in 2020 as an illustration, this paper introduced the concept, design principle, and basic trial process of the master protocol platform trial to provide methodological references for clinical research of drugs.

Citation： GUAN Zhiyue, LIU Yan, ZHANG Jingjing, CHEN Ying, DAI Hengheng, ZHANG Xuecheng, HU Mingzhi, SHANG Hongcai. Design of the master protocol platform trial and its application in related fields. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2021, 21(8): 986-992. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202104005 Copy

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2. Tang R, Shen J, Yuan Y. ComPAS: a Bayesian drug combination platform trial design with adaptive shrinkage. Stat Med, 2019, 38(7): 1120-1134.
3. Woodcock J, LaVange LM. Master protocols to study multiple therapies, multiple diseases, or both. N Engl J Med, 2017, 377(1): 62-70.
4. Meyer EL, Mesenbrink P, Dunger-Baldauf C, et al. The evolution of master protocol clinical trial designs: a systematic literature review. Clin Ther, 2020, 42(7): 1330-1360.
5. U. S. Food and Drug Administration. Master protocols: efficient clinical trial design strategies to expedite development of oncology drugs and biologics. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/media/120721/download.
6. Hirakawa A, Asano J, Sato H, et al. Master protocol trials in oncology: review and new trial designs. Contemp Clin Trials Commun, 2018, 12: 1-8.
7. Ledford H. 'Master protocol' aims to revamp cancer trials. Nature, 2013, 498(7453): 146-147.
8. 胡嘉元, 张晓雨, 赵晨, 等. 母方案设计用于冠心病中医药防治方案循证优化的思路和实施方法. 中国循证医学杂志, 2019, 19(1): 102-106.
9. Angus DC, Berry S, Lewis RJ, et al. The REMAP-CAP (Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform for Community-acquired Pneumonia) study. Rationale and design. Ann Am Thorac Soc, 2020, 17(7): 879-891.
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11. 于亚南, 杜培艳, 刘骏, 等. 精准医学创新性临床试验设计. 中国新药杂志, 2020, 29(23): 2712-2717.
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14. 衡明莉, 王北琪, 王骏. 对美国FDA适应性设计指导原则的介绍. 中国临床药理学杂志, 2019, 35(12): 1316-1320.
15. Cerqueira FP, Jesus AMC, Cotrim MD. Adaptive design: a review of the technical, statistical, and regulatory aspects of implementation in a clinical trial. Ther Innov Regul Sci, 2020, 54(1): 246-258.
16. Proschan MA, Hunsberger SA. Designed extension of studies based on conditional power. Biometrics, 1995, 51(4): 1315-1324.
17. Asendorf T, Henderson R, Schmidli H, et al. Sample size re-estimation for clinical trials with longitudinal negative binomial counts including time trends. Stat Med, 2019, 38(9): 1503-1528.
18. Denne JS. Sample size recalculation using conditional power. Stat Med, 2001, 20(17-18): 2645-2660.
19. Park JJH, Siden E, Zoratti MJ, et al. Systematic review of basket trials, umbrella trials, and platform trials: a landscape analysis of master protocols. Trials, 2019, 20(1): 572.
20. Barker AD, Sigman CC, Kelloff GJ, et al. I-SPY 2: an adaptive breast cancer trial design in the setting of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Clin Pharmacol Ther, 2009, 86(1): 97-100.
21. Berry SM, Connor JT, Lewis RJ. The platform trial: an efficient strategy for evaluating multiple treatments. JAMA, 2015, 313(16): 1619-1620.
22. Herbst RS, Gandara DR, Hirsch FR, et al. Lung master protocol (Lung-MAP)-a biomarker-driven protocol for accelerating development of therapies for squamous cell lung cancer: SWOG S1400. Clin Cancer Res, 2015, 21(7): 1514-1524.
23. Steuer CE, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Herbst RS, et al. Innovative clinical trials: the LUNG-MAP Study. Clin Pharmacol Ther, 2015, 97(5): 488-491.
24. Angus DC, Derde L, Al-Beidh F, et al. Effect of hydrocortisone on mortality and organ support in patients with severe COVID-19: the REMAP-CAP COVID-19 corticosteroid domain randomized clinical trial. JAMA, 2020, 324(13): 1317-1329.
25. RECOVERY Central Coordinating Office. RECOVERY protocol V1.0. Available at: https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/protocol-archive/recovery-protocol-v1-0-2020-03-18-final.pdf.

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