Re-Engineering Clinical Trials

Download or read book Re-Engineering Clinical Trials written by Peter Schueler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pharmaceutical industry is currently operating under a business model that is not sustainable for the future. Given the high costs associated with drug development, there is a vital need to reform this process in order to provide safe and effective drugs while still securing a profit. Re-Engineering Clinical Trials evaluates the trends and challenges associated with the current drug development process and presents solutions that integrate the use of modern communication technologies, innovations and novel enrichment designs. This book focuses on the need to simplify drug development and offers you well-established methodologies and best practices based on real-world experiences from expert authors across industry and academia. Written for all those involved in clinical research, development and clinical trial design, this book provides a unique and valuable resource for streamlining the process, containing costs and increasing drug safety and effectiveness. - Highlights the latest paradigm-shifts and innovation advances in clinical research - Offers easy-to-find best practice sections, lists of current literature and resources for further reading and useful solutions to day-to-day problems in current drug development - Discusses important topics such as safety profiling, data mining, site monitoring, change management, increasing development costs, key performance indicators and much more