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Mining Metadata for Clinical Research Activities
As anyone involved in clinical database creation knows, considerable resources are devoted to the development and validation of electronic data capture (EDC) systems. Once these databases are live and clinical data begin coming in, various processes for setting up data cleaning programming, database quality review, and reporting are put into play.
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Beating the Odds: 5 Strategies to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment
Hitting the clinical trial enrollment goal is not only important to meeting overall study timelines and budgets, it is critical to the success of the clinical study. If you don’t have enough participants, you won’t have enough data to support your objectives. That’s why it’s important to plan for enrollment just as you would plan for collecting and analyzing the data.
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10 Interviewing Tips for Jobs in Clinical Research
Are you interested in a job in clinical research? Get a head start from our experienced Rho expert with these tips that can help you stand out in the interview process.
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Why Depression Studies So Often Fail: Don’t Blame “Placebo Response”
After careful review of internal and external data, as well as published explanations for high “placebo response rates” in clinical depression trials (much of which also applies to clinical trials in general), three factors emerged as being of particular importance because they are easily mitigated by proper trial design, thorough research staff training, and meticulous oversight of study conduct.
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Practical Strategies to Simplify Patient Centricity: Part 4—Practical and Easier than You Might Think
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts on putting patient-centric principles into practice. In this post, we focus on the more positive and practical aspects of patient centricity, and how a patient-centered approach can improve our work and reduce our costs. How do we do that?
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Practical Strategies to Simplify Patient Centricity: Part 3—Why Patient Centricity, Why Now?
This is the third in a series of blog posts on putting patient-centric principles into practice. Before diving into the practical ramifications of patient centricity, it helps to understand some of the factors responsible for the emergence of this trend. In this post, we examine a few of the driving forces behind patient centricity, and consider consequences for our industry.
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Practical Strategies to Simplify Patient Centricity: Part 2—Patient Stories & the Importance of Communication
This is the second in a series of blog posts on putting patient-centric principles into practice. Excellent retention practices, such as those shared in the first article in this series, are a great first step but before we implement them and call it a day, we need to ask ourselves, why are we doing this? Our motivations tend to guide our actions and communications.
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Practical Strategies to Simplify Patient Centricity: Part 1—Overview
This is the first in a series of blog posts on putting patient-centric principles into practice. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, right? Specifically, how do we eat the elephant of patient centricity? We can employ simple, actionable, “bite-sized” strategies that will move us closer to a more patient-centric approach.
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Key Takeaways from ACRP 2017
This week we attended the 2017 ACRP Annual Meeting in Seattle. Here are some of the key trends, themes, and ideas that we took away from this robust meeting.
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Not Just Tiny Humans: Considerations for Conducting Pediatric Clinical Trials
When it comes to the conduct of pediatric clinical trials, there are a number of things you need to consider in order to ensure the successful conduct of a study. While we can’t predict the outcome, planning ahead for appropriate site and subject selection will take you one step closer.