Ensuring you have instant access to your clinical trial data is
stressful – you need to invest in smart e-solutions, train your
teams in system use, ensure they work with the data on an ongoing
basis, report on it and take action when any findings are made as
first results flow in. Seems like a lot of work, time and costs when
compared to collecting data on various external sources, cleaning it
in batches at the end of the study and resolving issues just shortly
before closing the database. Why stress your clinical trial team
with the additional demands? In this article, Kaia Koppel at KCR
elaborates on how “no news” during the life of a trial is bad news and
what data management can do to help when ensuring access to fast
data.