7 Reasons To Implement Electronic Data Collection In Your Next Clinical Trial

In clinical trials, Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments (eCOA) are used to evaluate how patients feel or function. This electronic method of capturing clinical data ensures high-quality and regulatory-compliant patient data. Compared to traditional paper diaries, eCOA eliminates the common issues of illegible answers, transcription errors, and inconsistent or conflicting data, which saves time and improves data quality.

Several conditions where researchers will want to consider using eCOA is cases where patient enrollment is difficult, sensitive or personal data is being collected, when the data is being used for an FDA/EMA or other regulating agency, or when data is being used to support new drug approvals.

In this guide, authors explain the fundamentals of eCOA and discuss how sponsors and CROs, of all sizes, can cost-effectively reduce risk and generate higher-quality data by collecting data electronically in their next study.