Clinical Research

Pre-screening and Screening in Clinical Trials: What You Need to Know

Pre-screening and Screening in Clinical Trials: What You Need to Know

Pre-screening and Screening in clinical trials are essential procedures that play a crucial role in the effective development of new medical treatments and therapies. These processes speak to ensuring the safety and effectiveness of potential interventions, ranging from new drugs to medical devices. Africa with its diverse population and unique healthcare challenges, is becoming an increasingly important region for clinical research and trials, therefore it’s important to know the pre-screening and screening processes implemented to ensure the success and integrity of clinical trials.

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6 Things to Know Before Joining a Clinical Trial

Clinical trials are essential for developing new medical treatments and improving existing ones. They involve testing new drugs, procedures, and medical devices on human subjects to evaluate their safety and effectiveness. Joining in a clinical trial can be an important decision, and it’s essential to know what to expect during the journey. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what you can expect when participating in a clinical trial.

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10 Tenets of Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are an essential component of drug development and medical research. The results of clinical trials help determine the safety and efficacy of new drugs and medical devices. The clinical laboratory is an integral part of clinical trials as it is responsible for generating reliable and accurate data that is critical to the success

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Digital Trials Vs. Decentralized Trials: The Difference & Meeting Implementation Challenges

Digital clinical trials (DCTs), a recently emerging paradigm since the onset of COVID-19 address many of the inefficiencies of traditional trials, however, to implement and scale this approach, developers will need to accommodate shifts in operational models and embrace new technology. On the other hand, Traditional clinical research is necessary for developing new medical technologies,

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Impacting Treatment Experience – Through the Optics of the Patient

Critical stakeholders in the trials ecosystem mainly sponsors and regulators want to see more than just test results and metrics when reviewing treatments. Criteria such as delayed disease progression and absence of side effects are impressive measures; however, they do not give a clear overview of the patient’s experience. Only a patient understands the impact

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Clinical Trials in Africa: Exploring the 5 Benefits of Participating in Medical Research

Clinical trials are an integral part of medical research and play a critical role in advancing healthcare. They provide a way to test new treatments and medicines, determine their safety and effectiveness, and improve patient care. For people in Africa, participating in clinical trials can have numerous benefits, both for individual health and for the

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Diversity in Clinical Trials and Research: 9 Reasons Why It Matters

The lack of diversity in Clinical Trial participants has some significant negative effects on both the African population and the Clinical Trial sponsors. Sponsors pass up the chance to carry out very inexpensive research with a broad patient group, frequently enrolling people who have never had any therapy for their ailment while the populace has

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Decentralized Clinical Trials; More than Industry Buzzword

In the last decade, there has been a gradual increase in the acceptance of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), one trend that has accelerated dramatically due to the pandemic. Now, there will be no going back, primarily due to the convenience and flexibility for patients. By minimizing the burden of participating in a clinical trial, sponsors

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Improving the Patient Experience in Clinical Trials

There’s no shortage of digital solutions in today’s innovation-fueled clinical research space at every stage of the clinical trial journey. Still, there’s a lot of room for improvement, especially when it comes to the patient experience. Consider the rapid increase of patient and site-facing technologies – from digital patient outreach to eConsent, sensors and wearables, telehealth,

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Monitoring of Clinical Trials …Adapting to the Paradigm Shift

Work has experienced a major transformation and this shift and the changes it precipitated have affected how we now conduct and perform monitoring of clinical trials. Years ago, it would be had been an abnormality in the clinical trial industry to propose any notion of conducting clinical trial procedures or trial monitoring activities in any

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