Clinical Trials – Challenges in Data Capture – a Review
Amar P S Chahal, Sonia Abrol, Harvinder Chahal
The authors present a review of ten years of experience and their current work in capturing data for
clinical trials. Over these ten years, the authors have dealt directly or indirectly with hundreds of trials
spanning a spectrum of studies in different phases, specialties, countries, languages, delivery and
uptake mechanisms, regulatory issues, and information sets. In this review, they describe their
experience, learning, successes, and failures, and then discuss these from an information management
perspective. They review mechanisms for data collection from mobile devices to direct data capture. In
conclusion, they outline their own current work on metrics that might allow researchers to make early
decisions on best practices in data capture in a given study and environment, and make
recommendations on approaches to data capture.
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Clinical Trials – Challenges in Data Capture – a Review
Amar P S Chahal, Sonia Abrol, Harvinder Chahal
The authors present a review of ten years of experience and their current work in capturing data for
clinical trials. Over these ten years, the authors have dealt directly or indirectly with hundreds of trials
spanning a spectrum of studies in different phases, specialties, countries, languages, delivery and
uptake mechanisms, regulatory issues, and information sets. In this review, they describe their
experience, learning, successes, and failures, and then discuss these from an information management
perspective. They review mechanisms for data collection from mobile devices to direct data capture. In
conclusion, they outline their own current work on metrics that might allow researchers to make early
decisions on best practices in data capture in a given study and environment, and make
recommendations on approaches to data capture.
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