 | Why Combine Clinical Trial Management Capability with LIMS?
- Integration with other clinical information systems improves the utility of existing clinical trial management systems (CTMS) software.
- Lost or misplaced trial specimens can disrupt trial execution and cost thousands of dollars; enabling the clinical trial specimen tracking process at the moment of specimen creation eliminates these problems.
- The availability of timely reports pertaining to specimen arrival condition, testing status, results, subject recruitment and visit status results in improved communication between the principal investigators, central laboratories, and project managers.
- Combining specimen handling capability with patient management and scheduling tools provides clinical sites with valuable productivity tools, and streamlines the trial workflow for the sponsor or CRO.
The LabWare LIMS Clinical Trial Manager module manages each individual subject at all participatingclinical sites as they progress through the trial. Configurable templates allow the use of any type of field (open text, date, list, drop-down list, standard code table, link to file, etc.) desired to provide overview synopsis of trial. The template-driven Clinical Trial Manager module consists of an intuitive tab-based interface that is used to capture and display trial details:
- Summary data - IRB information, budget overview of trial, # of patients, sites, etc.
- Site data - details clinical sites participating in a particular trial, the target number of subject recruits, target start date, target last enroll date, work schedule parameters, etc.
- Persons - Assigns individuals to clinical trial "roles" in order to control blinding characteristics by individual and by trial.
- Candidates – Used to identify candidate patients and to manage the screening process.
- Subject - Tracks the progress of individual subjects through the visit schedule.
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