The Clinical Trials Guru

Today, we’re going to explore the subject of how studies are changing. This is specifically for those of you that are interested in participating in the CNS studies. I had the opportunity to speak to a very good friend of mine, which owns a very large research company. He shared with me that they are seeing a new trend on how clinical studies are being conducted.

Dan did very thorough research on all the new studies and how they’re going to be laid out as far as participating in these studies. This is kind of about the same thing, but I want to share this information that I was given with you.

One major change is the length of the study. For example, there are studies that range from 30 to 45 days. During this time, you’d stay in the facility for this entire length of time. However, that may have not been an issue because of the compensation. Well now, they are starting to make the length in segments. For example, you may just spend a weekend in the hospital, and then come back the following weekend. This way time is spaced out, and you are not in the facility the entire time.

The reason for this is that it is more economical for them; they have to pay for the hospital beds the days you are there. This gives the monitors or doctors a chance to see how the treatments are going, if you’re doing fine, they will send you back home.

This is a new trend. Now there are still studies out there that are being conducted the old way. But majorities are shifting towards the new trend versus the long impatient treatment. Companies are becoming more cost effective in how they are conducting these studies. Also, the protocol has become a lot tighter. Some studies that are being conducted are based on studies done in the past, so they are really extensions of previous studies. Because of the extension studies, it makes it harder to get into clinical trials. This is because you may have already participated in an earlier phase of the study. For example, if you participated in phase 2 of the study, and they are now in phase 4, they have already collected data from you. They do not want to collect data again, from the same person.

We hope this information has helped you. If you have any questions, or would like to add any additional comments. We’d love to hear from you.