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Reducing Study Team Burden With Shorter Training

September 21, 2022

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Shorter training is an ever-present item near the top of nearly…

3 Barriers Preventing Clinical Trial Innovation

August 16, 2022

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Although adoption of clinical trial innovations have seen a rapid adoption in the world over the last decade, organizations that lag in adopting new technology and new ways of doing things are more common than not in the clinical research industry. A recent survey by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) indicated that innovations in the clinical trial arena take nearly six years to adopt.

Pro-ficiency’s Commitment to Customer Service

July 27, 2022

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Good customer service starts with a great product. Without that…

Reducing Study Team Burden with Targeted Training

July 14, 2022

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Booming administrative tasks, customized technology systems and redundant certification and training requirements are among the primary factors that clinical research staff say eats up time better spent with patients and adds excessive burden—often uncompensated—to study teams. Tailoring training to both the protocol not only will better assure a sponsor that each employee at a site is getting exactly the training they need, but it will save research staff the time burden of going through training they don’t need.

Mitigating Study Risk With Performance Analytics

May 27, 2022

Research sites are turning to various types of performance metrics to support risk-based management of clinical trials. “The first step in proactive data monitoring is to identify what is possible to mitigate, eliminate, and accept,” Hughes wrote. “This all forms part of various plans, including those for data, training, monitoring, statistical analysis, safety, medical monitoring, quality, and other functional plans.”