Decentralized Trial Approaches: How Do They Match Up To Conventional Studies?

Mira Zuidgeest is the principal investigator of a key EU study that proposes to compare fully remote, hybrid and conventional clinical trial approaches. She talks to the Pink Sheet about how the study might help understand “where we're heading with decentralized clinical trials.” 

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A proposed EU clinical trial of around 600 people living with diabetes who will be treated in the study in one of three different locations – 300 at their homes, 150 in a hybrid setup (part home, part trial site) and 150 at a trial site – is being closely watched.

The study, called RADIAL (Remote And Decentralised Innovative Approaches to clinical triaLs), is part of the Trials@Home project that is...

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