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How do you incorporate the caregiver in your clinical trial?
Inclusivity Leslie Yates Inclusivity Leslie Yates

How do you incorporate the caregiver in your clinical trial?

Caregivers are the biggest support system for many patients and are often working adults who provide care in their off-work hours to family members, spouses or children. Caregivers also look like the elderly providing care for a spouse, parents of children with disabilities, and home health aides. It’s these responsibilities that they already face in their daily routines that are making it difficult get participants enrolled to in-clinic site visits and typically, traditional trial designs create competing priorities for caregivers and their patients.

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Scaling your global hybrid-decentralized study
DCTs, Insights Leslie Yates DCTs, Insights Leslie Yates

Scaling your global hybrid-decentralized study

Whether you're planning your next clinical trial or looking to gradually expand your current hybrid-decentralized trial there are numerous decentralized clinical trial approaches and steps you can put in place for your projects, such as virtual visits within protocol, schedule of events (SoE), and ICF’s that can make scaling your study become a turn-key process.

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Insights, DCTs Leslie Yates Insights, DCTs Leslie Yates

What we've learned after conducting 100 DCTs

How do you, in a measured way, conduct and scale a decentralized trial? We may not have decentralized trials entirely figured out as we are still learning, adapting, and trying to optimize the decentralized clinical trial approach to be a better experience for everyone involved, however, we can share what we have learned after conducting 100 decentralized studies with THREAD.

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