Using Investigator Feedback to Improve Clinical Trial Performance

Investigators and other site staff work at the coal-face of clinical research. Listening to their issues and adapting trial processes pays dividends in reducing trial time and costs.

Research into investigator dissatisfaction ("Investigator Dissatisfaction with the Conduct of Clinical Trials." Glass H. The Monitor August 2009) has identified some common issues that an IXR can address, helping you to complete clinical trials of high quality in a timely fashion.

• Managing site finances
• Too much time spent by CRA at site
• Managing clinical trial supplies

Problems in these three areas are expensive. It is not just the investigators but clinical operations and project management resource can also be spent tracking and processing site payments. CRA time costs money too. And if the site is finding the tracking of supplies irksome then the risks of unacknowledged shipments, mis-dispensations and wasted PM resources micro-managing the supplies grows.

A well designed IXR can significantly mitigate these problems, reducing the cost of your trial and reducing the time needed to enrol subjects and reach database lock. HMD clinical's Pulse application can:

• Track site milestones (Site Activation, Subject visits, Shipment acknowledgements, etc) and automatically generate proforma invoices. Project Managers can authorize payments online. Investigators can monitor pending and authorised payments in real time.
• Provide the CRA with up to date pre-poulated documents and forms minimizing the on-site time by structuring the monitoring visit workflow more efficiently. For example – a drug accountability report to check the site supplies against is far more efficient than a blind stock check of the pharmacy.
• Manage the tracking and fulfilment of site supply requirements and substantially automate the generation of pharmacy storage, dispensation, returns and destruction logs to minimize workload.

For further information please contact us at info@hmdclinical.com to learn how we can help you bring your trial in faster and at lower cost.