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eHealth During the Clinical Trial Process

Trends in Study Participation and Clinical Trial Website Usage

Publication Date   December 2005
Publisher   Datamonitor
Product Type   Strategic Report
Pages   55
ISBN Number   not applicable
Product Code   DAT459
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Summary


Inefficient patient recruitment slows the progress of many clinical trials. Online recruitment has the potential to alleviate some of the current delays. However, the success of this approach depends upon consumers' comfort levels with the clinical trial process. Consumers need more educational resources, such as websites dedicated to providing clinical trial information.

Highlights

As consumers become better educated about the clinical trial process, recruitment efforts will increasingly depend on how well sponsoring organizations meet consumers' demand for a clear explanation of each trial's risk-benefit ratio.Few physicians have the free time to proactively access online information about participating in clinical trials. Therefore, peer-to-peer recruitment and invitations issued directly from sponsoring organizations will remain the most influential channels through which to recruit physicians.An established relationship with the organization conducting the trial is an important factor in the decision making process of many surveyed consumers and physicians. Branded websites will allow pharmaceutical companies to leverage these existing relationships and improve recruiting efficiency.

Scope

  • Analysis of the trends in consumer and physician participation in, and technology use during, the clinical trial process
  • Examination of the impact on consumers' and physicians' decision making processes of improved access to clinical trial data
  • Review of recent government and industry initiatives aimed at increasing the availability of clinical trial data online

Reasons to Purchase

  • Identify the channels through which consumers and physicians are most effectively recruited to participate in clinical trials
  • Evaluate what motivates consumers and physicians to look for information about, and ultimately participate in, clinical trial studies
  • Understand what types of content and services consumers and physicians are looking for when they go online for information about clinical trials

Content


  • Action Points
  • Scope of the report
  • Key points to take away from Datamonitor's research and analysis
  • Trends in patient recruitment to and participation in clinical trials
  • Trends in physician participation and technology use during the clinical trial
  • process
  • Consumer interest in using clinical trial website to learn more about and become
  • involved in the clinical trial process
  • Physician interest in using clinical trial websites to search for and access clinical
  • trial information and outcome data
  • Consumers Clinical Trial Participation
  • Trends in patient recruitment and participation
  • Growth of consumer participation in clinical trials will be driven by several factors
  • Present impact of recruiting channels
  • Recruiting minor subjects is a unique challenge
  • Motivating patients to participate in clinical trials
  • Summary of key points: trends in patient recruitment and participation
  • Physicians' Clinical Trial Participation
  • Trends in investigator recruitment and participation
  • Physicians' anticipate increased involvement in clinical trials
  • Physicians are strongly influenced by peer-to-peer recruitment efforts
  • The majority of clinical trial studies now have an electronic component
  • Electronic data capture has the potential to streamline the collection of information
  • from clinical trial sites
  • Few physicians have access to Internet-enabled mobile solutions
  • Summary of key points: trends in physician participation and technology use
  • during the clinical trial process
  • Consumer-Facing Clinical Trial Websites
  • Consumer interest in using clinical trial websites to learn more about and become
  • involved in the clinical trial process
  • The majority of surveyed consumers have searched for health information within
  • the past 6 months
  • Consumers in the US and the EU want increased access to clinical trial results
  • Clinical trials websites: a potential tool to recruit study participants
  • Use branded clinical trial websites to build upon existing relationships
  • The quality and comprehensiveness of the information presented on a clinical trial
  • website will heavily influence user satisfaction
  • Summary of key points: trends in consumer interest in clinical trial website use
  • Physician-Facing Clinical Trial Websites
  • Trends in physician interest in clinical trial website use
  • Clinical trial websites: keeping physicians current
  • Use branded clinical trial websites to leverage existing relationships with medical
  • professionals
  • Physicians need an online database for clinical trial outcome data
  • Clinical trial data provided to physicians online must provide physicians with the
  • 'whole story'
  • Summary of key points: trends in physician interest in clinical trial website use
  • Registration Of Clinical Trial Information
  • Legal clinical trial registration requirements
  • The US's federal-level clinical trial database: www.ClinicalTrials.gov
  • PhRMA's voluntary disclosure policy
  • PhRMA's clinical study results database: www.ClinicalStudyResults.org
  • The Future Decoded
  • The evolving roles of clinical trial websites
  • Consumer-facing clinical trial websites
  • Physician-facing clinical trial websites
  • Appendix
  • List of figures
    • References
    • Websites
    • Datamonitor Research
    • Research methodology
    • Datamonitor's 2005 Consumer eHealthInsight Survey
    • Datamonitor's 2005 Physician eHealthInsight Survey
    • Analyst Contacts
    • Related Datamonitor Research