|Articles|June 23, 2015

Optimizing Clinical Trials Using Electronic Measurement and Analysis of Drug Adherence

Drug development has never before been so difficult, time consuming and expensive. Accuracy in clinical trials, therefore, is a priority

Drug development has never before been so difficult, time consuming and expensive. Accuracy in clinical trials, therefore, is a priority. However, suboptimal adherence is prevalent in ambulatory trials, in which outpatients are responsible for taking the drug according to the protocol-specified dosing regimen. Unfortunately, most methods for measuring medication adherence are inaccurate, which can result in costly phase III failures. This whitepaper focuses on a proven exception-automatic adherence measurement through electronic compilation of drug dosing histories. Electronic measurement enables a better understanding of drug safety and efficacy data, improving the likelihood of a successful trial outcome and more informed development decisions, leading to faster speed to commercialization.

Read more on our whitepaper here.


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