When five companies each run a trial against the same standard treatment in the same patients, let them pool the standard-treatment patients so fewer people are randomised to the old drug.
Concurrent trials in the same indication each recruit their own control arm on identical standard of care. A pre-agreed common data model, shared eligibility core and a neutral data custodian would let sponsors borrow concurrent (not historical) controls with regulatory pre-agreement, as pioneered by the Alzheimer's Disease EPOCH and the Bayesian borrowing frameworks in paediatric oncology.
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