Craftsmanship In Clinical Trial Study Design

By Ryan Bailey, MA, Senior Clinical Researcher, Rho and Shann Williams, Senior Director of Operations, Rho

To be a successful clinical researcher, you need to coalesce expertise across a variety of domains - statistics, data management, project management, clinical operations, product safety, regulatory, medical writing - as you design, prepare, execute, and troubleshoot throughout the trial. The CRO industry exists because we provide specialty expertise in these areas, and many pharmaceutical companies are glad to have a trusted partner to manage various aspects of this work. Yet, regardless of which CRO services pharmaceutical companies seek out, one task pharmaceutical companies have been reluctant to source to their CRO partners is clinical trial design.