• 1. Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, P. R. China;
  • 2. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, P. R. China;
SHANG Hongcai, Email: shanghongcai@126.com
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Precision medicine is a personalized medical system based on patients' individual biological information, clinical symptoms and signs, forming a new clinical research model and medical practice path. The basic idea of traditional Chinese medicine and the concept of precision medicine share many similarities. The basket trial developed for precision medicine is also suitable for clinical trials and evaluation of the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and treatment systems. Basket trials are used to evaluate the efficacy of a drug in the treatment of multiple diseases or disease subtypes. It has the advantages of sharing a master protocol, unifying management of subsidiary studies, simplifying the test implementation process, unifying statistical analysis, saving resources, reducing budgets and accelerating the drug evaluation progress. This is similar to the concept of using the "same treatment for different diseases" found in traditional Chinese medicine. This paper introduced the concept and method of basket trials and explored their application and advantages in clinical research into traditional Chinese medicine. This study is expected to provide references for the methodological innovation of clinical research into traditional Chinese medicine.

Citation: CHEN Ying, CHANG Jingling, DAI Hengheng, ZHANG Kaige, ZHANG Jingjing, ZHANG Xuecheng, WAN Siqi, GUAN Zhiyue, HU Mingzhi, LIU Yan, SHANG Hongcai. Design of master protocol basket trial in precision medicine and its application in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2022, 22(4): 483-489. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202201063 Copy

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