Aiden Flynn, founder of analytical solutions company Exploristics answers some of the most pressing questions relating to clinical trials.
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What are some of the major barriers currently facing clinical trials?
The clinical trials industry suffers from a very poor record of success. One of the major barriers facing clinical trials today is poor trial design, which can lead to incomplete data sets, an inefficient or costly trial process and ultimately contribute to a trial’s failure.
The increasingly complex clinical questions that are being asked in trials that focus on precision medicine or rare diseases demand an optimised study design from the outset. Statisticians should be brought in at the design stage to ensure that studies are designed to deliver statistically significant and clinically meaningful answers.