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What is the answer to mitigate these challenges? Virtual clinical studies.<\/p>\n<p>As we move through the 21st century, technological advances allow us to bring the trial to a patient versus the patient coming to the trial or in this case the research center.\u00a0Companies like Pfizer (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.pfizer.com\/press-release\/pfizer-conducts-first-virtual-clinical-trial-allowing-patients-participate-regardless-\">REMOTE 2011 study<\/a>) and Sanofi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinpal.com\/clinpal-blog\/eclinicalhealth-announces-successful-results-entirely-remote-online-clinical-trial-3\/\">VERKKO 2015 study<\/a>) have blazed the trail by being among the first pharma companies to execute virtual clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>There are still scenarios that have to be calculated into the study design to mitigate enrollment challenges. From Pfizer\u2019s REMOTE trial, we learned that one challenge is the lack of trust among an older population that has to provide informed consent through an app. Conversely, we\u2019ve seen good results from some virtual trials that focus on the use of a device (like the VERKKO study) versus evaluating medication impact, which was the focus of the REMOTE study.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual clinical studies may be best used as a complement to traditional clinical studies, since not all study designs will be conducive to the virtual clinical trials.\u00a0But one thing we have learned: there is a definite future for virtual clinical studies.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the\u00a0fourth blog in our series on Patient Centricity. Read our previous blogs,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcrs.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/patient-centricity-really-mean\/\">What Does Patient Centricity Really Mean?<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcrs.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/focus_groups_protocol_design\/\">Focus Groups for Protocol Design<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcrs.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/patient-engagement-app\/\">Patient Engagement: Is there an App for that<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several decades, the clinical research industry has been riddled with the challenge of meeting enrollment goals on time. 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