This is the next installment of our look at the increasingly high placebo response that is plaguing clinical trials in analgesia and psychiatry. Check out the other posts here. Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed the psychological, neurobiological, and genetic mechanisms responsible for the placebo response. Today, we turn to the study designs used...
DURHAM, N.C., JULY 21, 2017 — Premier Research, seeking to accelerate clinical trial design and patient recruitment to better serve its highly innovative customers, has signed an agreement with TriNetX to allow direct query access to its global health research network, comprised of healthcare organizations representing over 84 million patients globally. The Durham-based contract research organization will use TriNetX’s cloud-based platform...
For a Clinical Endpoint Committee (CEC) to make important decisions, it needs the data to do so. That’s why developing an effective and reliable endpoint data capture strategy is a vital part of working with a CEC. Before starting a clinical trial, sponsors should be able to answer these questions. 1. What needs to be defined?...
In our previous CECs blogpost, we reviewed why Clinical Endpoint Committees (CECs) are so crucial for successful trials today. But just how do sponsors establish and operate a CEC? It’s a complex process that can be broken down into these eight key steps: 1. Understand the deep level of commitment required in putting a CEC together....
A U.S. pharmaceutical company needed an immediate outsourcing solution to replace an underperforming vendor. Not only was time critical, cost was, too. These new data specialists would be located offshore to reduce the sponsor’s overhead. Oh, and did we mention it had to be done fast? Higher performance, lower cost Premier Research stepped in and...
Every day, the world creates and stores 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. If you really must know, that’s 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. We’re piling it up faster than ever, too — so fast that 90 percent of the data that exists today was created in the past two years. Moving and sharing all that information is a...
When the going gets tough, the tough get … creative. The search for the best resourcing solution sometimes defies a single answer. That’s when Premier Research combines outsourcing, insourcing, and geographic flexibility to devise a hybrid solution. Rethinking data operations A small oncology-focused biotech company presented such a challenge when seeking to contract out its...
DURHAM, N.C., June 23, 2017 — A Premier Research medical coding expert will take part in a panel discussion on the new WHODrug B3 and C3 formats. Lubomir Tarabcak, Manager of Medical Coding, will be taking part in the hour-long panel at the WHODrug User Group Meeting, June 23 in Chicago. The discussion, to begin...
DURHAM, N.C., June 19, 2017 — Data integrity has been a prime focus of pharmaceutical regulators for two decades now, but the focus is sharpening markedly with issuance of new guidance from multiple regulatory authorities. Sherri Hubby, who leads quality assurance, risk, and compliance at Premier Research, will address this trend and its implications at...
Sponsors often face significant challenges in collecting robust, quality data that demonstrates the safety and efficacy of investigative psychiatric drugs. However, before these problems can be solved, they must be understood. Be sure to keep these four issues in mind when mapping out strategies for ensuring quality data collection in psychiatric clinical trials. 1. There...