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Registry-embedded randomisation of treatment order in routine care

When two approved drugs are both reasonable next steps and nobody knows which should come first, let the clinic flip a coin and record what happens.

Point-of-care randomisation embedded in the electronic record (as in the TASTE trial in cardiology and the NHS PRINCIPLE platform) can answer sequencing questions about approved drugs with thousands of patients at low cost. Consent is simplified because both options are standard of care; follow-up uses routine data.

Hypothesis
A registry-embedded randomisation of sequence (for example CDK4/6 inhibitor then oral SERD versus the reverse) enrols at least ten times faster per site than a conventional sequencing trial and yields a survival comparison with adequate power within four years.
Rationale
Cardiology and infectious disease have used registry-randomised trials at scale. Oncology has the registries (national cancer registries, Flatiron-type databases) but has not embedded randomisation.
What would test it
Pilot in one national health system for one sequencing question where equipoise is documented in guidelines; measure enrolment rate and data completeness.
Maturity
speculative
Who has to act
clinic
Cost to try
Medium ($1M to $50M)
Years to first evidence
4
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