|Articles|May 27, 2014

How We Fall into Clinical Trial Metrics Malpractice

Effective clinical trial management depends on accurate and unbiased performance measurement.

Effective clinical trial management depends on accurate and unbiased performance measurement. Performance measures are the lens through which managers monitor clinical trials and assess trial quality. Using the wrong metric or having biased measures distorts managers’ view and hinders effective trial oversight. It is important, then, that clinical trials managers make sure that they are using the right performance measures.

In this Applied Clinical Trials blog, Dr Michael J. Howley outlines four common types of malpractice in clinical trial performance measurement. Read more here.

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