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A Guide To Decentralized Clinical Trials

 
• By Mark Terry

In Vivo looks at some of the benefits and challenges created by decentralized clinical trials, how technology is being applied, and how regulators and researchers are working to prove the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of DCT trials compared to traditional clinical trials.

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Decentralized clinical trials (DCT), or sometimes “virtual trials,” were gaining momentum prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when in-person clinical sites were closed due to the pandemic, many clinical trials globally either had to suspend studies or, if appropriate, find ways to continue using “virtual” techniques.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) notes, “Decentralization is enabled by the advancement of digital tools, medicine and more mobile and...

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