Sine quo non; without which nothing. This bit of Latin should be on the forefront of your mind when deciding on what system you will use to collect data for your clinical trial. Lacking a reliable method of data collection, no amount of well laid plans in other areas of your project will make [...]
As time and technology have progressed, humans have seen a real shift from stagnant, hard-to-use communication, to mobile technology that can, essentially, be used remotely all across the globe. As a result of this change and progression, there has been a stark surge in the utilization of SMS messaging, especially in the healthcare industry. [...]
Patient reported outcomes have played a central role in clinical trials since long before the importance of randomization, placebo controlling and blinding were realized. They provide a great subjective measure of the patient’s condition. In the age of smartphones, patient reported outcomes are still recorded with plain old paper and pen. Paper has provided us [...]