EU Remote Trials Project Gets Moving

Diabetes Pilot Will Compare Conventional & Remote Trial Approaches

29 Jun 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has given a fresh impetus to the ongoing EU project on remote decentralized trials with more appetite for innovative approaches.

stethoscope and a smartphone with a medical app, copyspace (3d render) — Remote Trials Can Improve Patient Recruitment And Retention • Source: Shutterstock

An EU project that is looking to develop standards and tools for remote decentralized clinical trials (RDCTs) has decided on diabetes as the ideal therapeutic area for a pan-EU pilot that will compare traditional clinical trials to fully and hybrid RDCT approaches.

The pilot is a key part of the Trials@Home project that is expected to result in concrete and practical recommendations...