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    Ancillary Trial Supplies and EquipmentClinical Trial Writing and DesignPatient EngagementPatient Recruitment and RetentionSite Materials & LogisticsTranslation of Study Materials

    Clinical Trial Efficiencies: The Power of a Single Workstream

    by Dan McDonald August 18, 2022
    written by Dan McDonald

    The management time needed to corral many different elements during a trial is immense. In the buildup to a research study, clinical operations teams often focus on items such as study startup, site initiation and activation, supply chain, monitoring, data management, and safety. And there is so much more! Finding ways to improve clinical trial efficiencies leads to an easier-to-manage study.

    Some key site needs and patient engagement components that need to be managed include:

    clinical study component list

    Also, consider complicating factors, such as:

    • The growing global footprint of clinical studies
    • The evolution to a decentralized clinical trial model
    • The importance of considering health literacy in educating potential study volunteers, their caregivers, and stakeholders
    • The need to drive greater diversity in clinical trials

    More responsibilities

    In addition to managing all the different elements of a research study, clinical trial project managers are saddled with overseeing as many as eight different vendors, when considering the list of services above. Therefore, they often find two more titles added to their job description:

    • Project manager
    • Vendor manager

    That’s up to eight separate vendors, all with unique requirements culminating in the need for numerous meetings, people, and timelines. Management can be highly complex and disruptive, and wreak havoc on study timelines. These elements are also outside the core competencies of many CROs and sponsors.

    The failure to identify, plan for and synchronize these elements accounts for holes that far too many study teams miss. This leads to unexpected delays and headaches.

     Interconnection of individual components

    Interconnection of clinical trial componentsHow something is written impacts translation. Writing clinical trial content with translation in mind ensures the source text is unambiguous and easy to read. Improved English text also makes it easier to translate, which saves time and money, avoids errors, and improves readability.

    During translation, 20-25 percent (even up to 35 percent in some languages) of text expansion can occur, which impacts formatting. Planning during the initial creative design process can allow for text expansion and contraction without impacting the overall design. Too often these activities are done in a vacuum.

    Vendors that need to be in lockstep often are not. One vendor may not know when they will receive files from another vendor to keep the project moving forward. This creates issues with resource planning and time management.

    Translators need to know when they will receive files from writers. The layout and formatting vendor needs to know when they will receive the translated files. The printer needs to know when they will receive the formatted print-ready files and so on. This takes up personnel time to communicate with each vendor and time to physically move files from one vendor to another. Then, if there are amendments or other changes, the cycle starts all over again.

    Opportunities to improve clinical trial efficiencies

    What if all these pieces could be managed together? Combining as many services as possible with one vendor can alleviate the pain and create clinical trial efficiencies.

    The activities I’ve listed need to be considered as a single workstream. When placed into a single workflow and taken together, they can result in a powerful platform for awareness building, education, outreach, engagement, and support.

    Doing so gives study managers tremendous visibility and allows for centralized control over the quality, speed, and cost. Furthermore, it recognizes that these functions are critically linked and that the quality and approach to work on one directly impacts the others.

    Imperial provides a single vendor, a single point of contact, and a dedicated project manager devoted to staying on top of details and timelines to make your study a success. All the above-listed pitfalls are pre-planned for and taken care of behind the scenes to provide our clients with a smooth, hassle-free process.

    Whether creating a single workflow for your study or managing just one essential part, Imperial is ready to help create clinical trial efficiencies.

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    Machine Translation: OK for Your Clinical Trial Materials?

    by Sian Jones February 15, 2022
    by Sian Jones February 15, 2022

    The number of global trials grows every year, with study teams reaching out to increasingly diverse patient populations. These broader populations bring a growing variety of languages, cultures, and experiences – all of which need to be considered when recruiting or interacting with clinical trial…

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    Translations for Clinical Trials: COVID-19 Brings Special Challenges

    by Sian Jones September 30, 2021
    by Sian Jones September 30, 2021

    Translations for Clinical Trials: COVID-19 Brings Special Challenges

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    Better Instead of Worse: 3 Tips for Managing Translation Document Review

    by Erica Manning August 24, 2021
    by Erica Manning August 24, 2021

    The documents we create for clinical trials are collections of words. Reviewing these documents can be a straightforward process, with the final draft approved after one or two rounds of changes. In clinical trial translation management, sometimes a document is improved by the edits, sometimes…

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    Keep Mother Languages Alive!

    by Erica Manning February 23, 2021
    by Erica Manning February 23, 2021

    Many people can take their language skills for granted (even if it is just one). Language gives us human beings a chance to express our thoughts, ideas, and feelings to one another. This allows us to understand each other, empathize and ultimately feel connected. Even…

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  • Business InsightsTranslation of Study Materials

    Google Translate: The Unwitting Confidentiality Flaw

    by Sian Jones April 15, 2020
    by Sian Jones April 15, 2020

    The Information Age has impacted a wide range of industries and workplaces. The translation industry has been no stranger to technological advancements, predominantly with the introduction and ever increasing use of machine translation. The most renowned translation software is Google Translate. Launched in April 2006,…

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    Writing clinical trial content for translation: How to hit a home run

    by William McEwen August 14, 2019
    by William McEwen August 14, 2019

    Oh wait, the title of this blog would not translate easily. A translator once told me that baseball idioms, used frequently in the United States, are difficult to translate. While baseball is popular in the U.S., experience with the sport and associated expressions vary globally.…

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    Translation Agencies – Will the Future Need Us?

    by Erica Manning November 30, 2017
    by Erica Manning November 30, 2017

    Returning from the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) Language Industries Summit 2017, I reflected on an emerging theme that threaded across the presentations and discussion topics. Like the gas lamplighters of the 1800s, whose numbers dwindled as electricity gradually eliminated the need for most of them…

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    7 Ancillary Supplies Adventures

    by Hope Cullen March 20, 2017
    by Hope Cullen March 20, 2017

    At Imperial, we know that selecting, procuring, and delivering ancillary supplies for clinical trials isn’t just loading syringes and Fitbits into FedEx boxes and sending them here and there. It’s as varied and challenging as you might imagine. Here are a few of my favorite…

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    A Checklist for Preparing Your Next Translation Project

    by Erica Manning April 27, 2015
    by Erica Manning April 27, 2015

    You’ve spent weeks leading a team of people who have invested countless hours of time, energy, emotion and resources creating your patient materials.  The text was drafted and then laid out into the carefully chosen study design.  Round upon round of painstaking review commenced. Finally,…

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