Featured Editorial

  1. Establishing TMF Quality Goals For Greater Trial Efficiency 9/14/2023

    Does your clinical development group rely on its TMF as a resource for designing and conducting trials efficiently? Would maintaining timeliness in filing complete, ALCOA-compliant documents to the TMF be enough if efficiency were a goal of every clinical trial? Consultant Ken Keefer discusses the importance of creating TMF quality goals to improve overall trial performance.

  2. RBQM Adoption: Current Use, Overcoming Barriers, And Anticipating ICH E6 (R3) 9/12/2023

    Steve Young, member of Avoca Quality Consortium, PHUSE Working Group participant, and Tufts survey contributor, discusses the findings of the groups’ joint global research study with CluePoints and Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), the implications of the upcoming ICH E6(R3) guidelines, and the future of risk-based clinical trial conduct. 

  3. How To Accelerate Digital Clinical Transformation Through A Holistic Approach 8/31/2023

    Only one third of companies that have started a digital transformation journey has witnessed the expected ROI/revenue benefits. In the successful cases, a holistic, integrated approach created the transformational value. Explore the 10 key enterprise capabilities for successful digital clinical transformation.

  4. Embracing Hybrid Trial Design — How, When, & Why To Use It 6/28/2023

    Global Clinical Sciences & Operations Innovation Lead Lewis Millen talks about UCB’s approach to hybrid trial design, how and when it chooses to implement remote and virtual elements, and why a hybrid trial is beneficial to both the sponsor and the patient.

  5. Using RWD For Rapid Signal Assessment: Current Gaps And Opportunities 6/23/2023

    One of the chief benefits of applying RWD for rapid signal assessment is that it can provide a more accurate view of outcomes that should be expected within a given clinical scenario. However, before RWD’s maximum potential for rapid signal assessment can be reached, the industry must overcome some sizable challenges. Amgen's Vaishali Patadia explains.

  6. Safety-centric Monitoring: Measuring Safety Data In A Consistent And Standardized Manner 6/19/2023

    Today, we have access to more data than ever before, and in an ever-advancing technological landscape, it is increasingly important to adopt a safety-centric monitoring approach that ensures we can measure safety data in real time and in a standardized manner across the industry. The challenge now is how to extract and leverage the quality data from the large volume that we have access to.

  7. Advancing Rare Disease Research With Patient Registries 6/16/2023

    In this Q&A, “Rare dad” Harsha Rajasimha, Ph.D. of IndoUSrare discusses the current state of rare disease research and explains how patient registries can help propel drug development for rare disease therapies. 

  8. How PROs Enhance Patient Care Decisions And Future Clinical Research 6/12/2023

    Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) offer unique insights that complement traditional treatment efficacy endpoints, such as survival or disease relapse, and can facilitate better discussions between clinicians and patients. When PROs are incorporated into clinical trial protocols, sponsors can gain a better understanding of the treatment’s impact from the patient’s perspective. 

  9. How Do You Determine If RWE Is A Good Fit For Your Org? Ask (And Answer) The Right Questions 6/5/2023

    Real world evidence (RWE) is being heralded as a way to enrich our clinical data and lower the barriers to reimbursement. It also carries the potential of reducing the patient burden and lowering the cost of clinical data acquisition. But before getting to the point where we can reap the promises of RWE, we face a number of challenges as an industry. 

  10. Clinical Trial Diversity, Flexibility Championed By The Food And Drug Omnibus Reform Act 5/23/2023

    The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act, signed into law by President Biden on Dec. 29, 2022, includes provisions intended to modernize clinical trials and are broadly divided into two categories: encouraging the enrollment of diverse populations and facilitating novel clinical trial designs.