What kind of emphasis do we need in clinical research to enable personalised respiratory medicine?

Abstract

It also prompts a key question about the balance between the effort spent on randomised clinical trials (RCTs) versus real-life research (RLR), particularly in an era where frequent monitoring of patients capturing their real life, using wearable devices, home diagnostics, smartphones, smart inhalers, collections of contextual information, cloud connectivity and the ability to analyse large complex datasets is becoming increasingly feasible [2].