Bio-IT World Podcast: Rising Clinical Trial Delays and Costs—Addressing the Causes, Not the Symptoms
Protocol complexity is taking a toll on clinical study speed and efficiency; increasingly complicated and ambitious protocols are not only burdening sites and study volunteers, but are also prolonging trials and increasing expenses. In response, sponsors have turned to global study placement, restructured site relationships and new site management practices, but the problems remain.
This podcast discusses:
- Why these responses address only the symptoms, not the underlying causes, of rising clinical trial delays and costs;
- Results of a recent Tufts University/Medidata Solutions study;
- New metrics benchmarking protocol design trends;
- New systematic protocol design improvements, and why they are essential to clinical trial performance excellence.
Edward S. Seguine, MBA
General Manager, Trial Planning
Medidata Solutions Worldwide
Kenneth A. Getz, M.B.A.
Senior Research Fellow
Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
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