Patient reported outcomes, including symptom diaries, objective self-report measurements and validated clinical assessments, are increasingly important in clinical trials and regulatory submissions
ClinPhone reports that over 200 clinical projects using its electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePro) system have been supported by the company and its expert partner in validated clinical assessments, Healthcare Technology Systems (HTS).
These latest figures further reinforce ClinPhone's superior expertise within the ePRO arena, it says, demonstrating its unmatched scale of experience and service excellence.
Paper-based diaries, which have traditionally been used to collect this important trial data, suffer from serious limitations, and more recently alternative technologies including hand-held diaries have emerged as a substitute.
The ePro alternative, powered by Clinphone's Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology, has proven advantages over both paper and hand-held diaries.
A major factor behind ePro's success is the cost benefit that Interactive Voice Response methodology can provide.
As ePRO studies often combine other value-added services, such as randomisation and medication supply management, it is significantly more cost-effective compared to handheld diaries.
Another price benefit is the fact that there is no need to purchase or support dedicated hardware; almost every patient in every trial has access to a telephone.
Patient reported outcomes data are becoming increasingly important in clinical trials and regulatory submissions.
These data include symptom diaries, objective self-report measurements and a wide range of validated clinical assessments.
In many therapy areas, not only does it represent primary efficacy data, but can also contribute to drug labelling information.
ClinPhone says its technology offers a simple and intuitive alternative to traditional data recording methods for a wide range of applications from simple diaries to complex clinical instruments.
Thanks to the real-time nature of the patient data facilitated by its centrally hosted database, IVR ePro can help achieve significant improvements in compliance monitoring and data quality.
ClinPhone ePro can also be seamlessly integrated with the company's portfolio of other innovative and cost saving solutions such as randomisation, medication supply management, and patient recruitment services.
Furthermore, IVR ePro data can be fed directly into most leading and in-house electronic data capture (EDC) applications through ClinPhone's integration platform, Connect for EDC.
