Applied Clinical Trials-02-01-2015

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The "discussion draft" for legislation to speed "21st Century Cures" to patients emerged very quietly on Capitol Hill recently, muted by an absence of bipartisan support which had generated considerable enthusiasm for this effort to promote biomedical research and streamline regulation.

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Efforts are escalating to encourage sponsors, research institutions, and clinical investigators to accept oversight for multi-center studies by central institutional review boards (IRBs), as seen in several discussions of this topic at the December conference on "Advancing Ethical Research" sponsored by Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research.

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Sponsor companies face intense pressure to deliver higher levels of efficiency and drug development performance. A growing number of sponsors are now acting on the belief that improvements in protocol design feasibility hold the key to addressing and easing some of these pressures.

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The organization of healthcare is changing rapidly. The healthcare delivery system is increasingly powered by payers and regulators, and this directs both clinical medicine and drug development. Partly because of this change, the drug development process has been heavily scrutinized, and a great emphasis has been placed on more efficient translation of basic science into useful medicines.

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After a five-year review of clinical trial quality measurement research and practices, we have concluded that clinical trial quality measurement does not meet current scientific standards

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Sites: Integrated Clinical Research Boosting the Investigator Pool Trial Design: Remote Patient-Centered Studies Risk-Based Monitoring in Action Also in this issue: New Drug Approval Momentum mHealth in Clinical Trials Simplifying Protocol Design