The Trials@Home course on DCTs
The Trials@Home consortium developed a training for patients and patient organisations to optimise understanding of Decentralised Clinical Trial approaches (DCTs) in Europe. This online training has been created to introduce the concept of DCTs, and to explain how to design and run such trials and which technologies can be used for which decentralised activities.
Chapter 3: Tackling challenges in DCTs
Chapter 3: Tackling challenges in DCTs
DCTs have many potential benefits when it comes to bringing clinical trials closer to the patient’s home, but this also means that there are potential challenges that can be encountered along the way. This chapter covers some of those challenges and how they can be anticipated and managed…
Chapter 4: Co-creating DCTs – engaging with the target participant group
Chapter 4: Co-creating DCTs – engaging with the target participant group
Many stakeholders are involved in the design and conduct of clinical trials. Patient organisations and patients have gained more of a voice in recent years as researchers and sponsors began to understand that the involvement of lived experience led to more meaningful trial goals, designs and outcomes…
Chapter 5: RADIAL, the Trials@Home proof-of-concept trial
Chapter 5: RADIAL, the Trials@Home proof-of-concept trial
The RADIAL trial is a proof-of-concept clinical trial exploring how clinical trial activities can be moved from hospitals to participants’ homes. It involved people with Type 2 diabetes across six European countries and compared three different trial formats. A case study…