I have observed many of the different adjudication workflows used across a variety of sponsor and CRO trials, and noticed that divergence in workflows is greatly influenced by issues of control and trust. For example, a relatively simple two-adjudicator workflow followed by a CEC evaluation in...

The clinical trial industry is tackling workflow challenges through automation. For years, IT companies have developed important tools to help sponsors and CROs manage the data they collect, ensuring that every system interaction is properly logged so analysis can find and correct shortcomings in the...