Authors


Timothy Pratt, PhD

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Getting it Wrong: Are We Missing the Most Critical Point When it Comes to Achieving Clinical Trial Diversity?

There is a growing need to refocus efforts on how diversity is achieved in clinical trials, because some are doing it wrong despite their best intentions.


F. John Mills

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Precedents for Good Storage Practice

Effective strategies for ensuring the long-term integrity of specialized biological samples


Sandra Chica

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The Role of Independent Review in Oncology Trials

Independent experts help reduce variability and bias in trials that use medical imaging.


Joonhyuk Choi

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eSource Records in Clinical Research: Keeping it Simple

How to satisfy regulatory concerns about EDC data integrity and site controls over its source records.


Helen Ostrowski

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Cleaning Up Pharma's Reputation

Right now the industry has a chance to reclaim its good name and recapture the public's respect for the power of what it can do.


Barbara Chandler

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The Role of Independent Review in Oncology Trials

Independent experts help reduce variability and bias in trials that use medical imaging.


Edward A. Ashton

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Maximizing Oncology Imaging Data

Increasing development costs and high failure rates require earlier integration of imaging data in the Phase I setting.


Timothy A. Wurst

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Drug Development on Rails: Part Two

Using a template both accelerates a project's timeline and infuses it with best practices.


Kelie Williams

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The Role of Independent Review in Oncology Trials

Independent experts help reduce variability and bias in trials that use medical imaging.


Benjamin Levinson

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Example of an Industry-CRO Partnership

Target Health and Infacare used a CRF database to answer all of FDA's questions.


Nancy Dreyer

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Using Pragmatic Randomization in Real-World Studies

How pragmatic clinical trials increase the robustness of real world studies at a fraction of the cost of classical randomized controlled clinical trials.


Beat Widler

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Sentiment Analysis: Understand Your Healthcare Customers

 Sentiment analysis can give health care organizations a competitive edge in understanding what customers think about their healthcare experience, to help reduce costs and improve care service and to lead to new clinical research and treatments. In addition, it taps into a new channel of pharmacovigilance input information that can enable Marketing Authorization Holders to keep abreast of opinions on the safety of their products in real time.


Gaurav Sawhney

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The Role of Independent Review in Oncology Trials

Independent experts help reduce variability and bias in trials that use medical imaging.


Khaled El Emam

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Are Clinical Trial Data Shared by the EMA Under Policy 0070 Really Public Data?

The general assumption that the Policy 0070 data releases were public data releases can be challenged since there is a mechanism to enforce the ToU, and this mechanism will continue to exist after the Agency moves to the Netherlands.


Teri Stokes

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Developing and Validating Electronic Diaries

The study protocol and a set of specifications are the road map for developing the software and the support structures for an EPD study.


Dan Catizone

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Clinical Trial Shipping: The Essentials

What you need to know to save the bottom line...and your sanity.


Jean-Marc Leroux

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The Central Laboratory: 20 Years of Evolution

A detailed history of the billion-dollar industry since its inception in 1986 and what the future may hold.


Samuel Hume

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Achieving End-to-End Traceability Using Trace-XML

Traceability plays a crucial role in ensuring the integrity of source data and in reinforcing clinical research results. CDISC has developed Trace-XML as an extension of its Define-XML model for delivering clinical data lifestyle traceability from data collection through to final analysis.


Heiner Gertzen, PhD

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Critical Appraisal of Clinical Quality Assurance Based on Benchmarking Results: Past - Present - Future

A follow-up survey on clinical quality assurance (CQA) assesses current industry best practices compared to a decade ago, and provides recommendations on this key component of quality management for the future.


Brian Tiplady

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ePROs: Practical Issues in Pen and Touchscreen Systems

A number of factors influence the successful electronic collection of patient data, including screen size.


Jim Murphy

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Clinical Trial Industry Predictions

More access to trials, an increase in digitalization, and much more are on the horizon for the industry in 2021.


Jane Barrett

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What's Behind Clinical Trial Data?

Jane Barrett discusses data quality as she addresses the question raised by DIA's 2nd European Clinical Forum: Is 90% of data rubbish?


Chad Gwaltney

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To BYOD or Not to BYOD? That's the ePRO Question...

In the world of electronic patient reported outcomes, many clinical trial sponsors are interested in the concept of Bring Your Own Device...


Mary Anne Sabogal

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Reconsidering Third-Party Companies for Subject Enrollment

Central call centers can relieve sites of tedious scheduling and record keeping, freeing them to focus on physical exams and other core tasks.


Donna Beasley

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Science in Recruitment Means a Greater ROI

Systemized knowledge: experience, insight, and predictive modeling deliver successful enrollment.


Peter O'Donnell, ACT's Brussels Correspondent

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Faint Hopes of Dispelling the Fog Around Cross-Border Trials in Europe

A forum of prominent industry stakeholders highlights the challenges for patients in navigating the multiple legal, regulatory, and ethical barriers to cross-border participation.


Graham Nicholls

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Simulation: A Critical Tool in Adaptive

How simulation can help in the planning and implementation of adaptive clinical trials.


Toby Jane Hindin, EdD

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Saving Lives

What do the G8 Summit, national security, and the pharmaceutical industry have in common?


William K. Sietsema

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Hands-On Therapeutic Training

Our training places heavy emphasis on site selection: The entire study may suffer if sites are chosen poorly.


Hugo Stephenson, MD

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The Gatekeepers Are Gone: What’s Next for Digital Patient Engagement?

The clinical trial industry has a rare opportunity to redefine its role in public health conversations.

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