Expedite the study enrollment with DCT
Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT):
Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are the focus point in many industry discussions and activities due to numerous benefits for patients and researchers, including high clinical trial efficiency. Clinical trials have largely traversed from site-based traditional trials to site-less DCTs, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. But it comes with a challenge from all the stakeholders.
DCT is not a newly found concept and it has evolved in the past few years with adding more services to increase the convenience and compliance of participating in clinical trials for the patients. DCT also has different names, such as direct-to-patient trials, patient-centric trials, home-based trials, and virtual trials.
There are so many potential benefits of DCT and a few of them are as follows:
Enhancing the diversity and the population of patients:
DCT brings the clinical research closer to the patients by moving it to a more convenient location like their homes or a local clinic. This allows more patients with different health conditions to engage actively in the clinical trials.
Extending the study to remote places:
Patients in remote areas will also be interested in participating in these clinic studies, which gives a wide range of authenticity.
Improve patient engagement and retention:
According to a 2020 status, the average patient dropout rate increased. Patient-oriented clinical research increases the satisfaction and retention of the participants, which helps to reduces the cost and risk of patients dropping out, significantly.
Collecting high-quality diversified data:
With new technologies adaption, DCT offers a steady stream of high-quality, diversified data that patients capture regularly.