Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
Medical Oncology Department, Oncobell Program, IDIBELL Institut Català d'Oncologia, Hospital Duran i Reynals, CIBERONC, Barcelona, Spain.
Eur J Intern Med. 2022 Feb;96:1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2021.11.002. Epub 2021 Nov 12.
Systems tend toward inertia until an external pressure pushes them toward change; thus, a situation of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic represents an opportunity for technological innovation. The prevailing need for treatments and vaccines has impelled innovation in the world of randomized clinical trials (RCT), resorting to ideas that had been floating around for a while. Is this merely a circumstantial phenomenon or are new methods here to stay?
系统往往倾向于保持惯性,直到外部压力迫使它们发生变化;因此,像 COVID-19 大流行这样的危机情况为技术创新提供了机会。对治疗方法和疫苗的迫切需求推动了随机临床试验 (RCT) 领域的创新,采用了一些之前已经存在的想法。这仅仅是一种偶然现象,还是新方法已经出现并将继续存在?