The Value of Engaging Sites in Clinical Trial Development

Trial Better: A Clinical Trials Podcast

Introduction
Vivienne de Walle, Co-Founder of PT&R - a dedicated clinical trial site in the Netherlands, is joined by Chris Porter, VP of Marketing & Digital Strategy, ERT for a discussion about the importance of involving clinical sites in the design of clinical studies. Sites are on the frontline of your clinical trials and as such, bring with them a wealth of experience and advice on how to make trials run more smoothly and efficiently, ultimately bringing drugs to market faster.

Here’s a summary of what you can expect from the podcast:

The value of your sites embracing technology
Paper data collection is still used in clinical studies. Learn how a site views the importance of embracing technology to get drugs to the patients who need them, faster.

Simplify site staff’s day-to-day lives
Keeping sites engaged in clinical trials is vital. If sites are motivated, they will be high recruiters, help achieve high compliance rates amongst patients and give you the data you need to make your trial a success. To do this, we need to make taking part as simple as possible. Eliminate multiple portals with multiple logins, ensure automatic notifications to site staff are part of the protocol to capture patients who are non compliant and ensure training requirements are kept to a minimum.

Involve sites early in your study design
Sites spot problems which sponsors, CRO’s and vendors may miss. For example, is the device actually intuitive to use? If not, patients are likely to be non-compliant. Asking patients with specific neurological conditions to use a stylus to record electronic diary entries may prove problematic and might result in the failure of the entire trial. These kinds of details may be overlooked by anyone but the site, yet are vital for the success of the trial itself.