A rapid information-gathering tool embedded within the national volunteer registry, ResearchMatch, is helping clinical researchers obtain feedback from potential study participants to improve trial design and recruitment strategies.
“Traditional methods of seeking community input on study design and operational assumptions can be time-consuming and resource-intensive,” said the creator of ResearchMatch, Paul Harris, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics and director of the Office of Clinical Research Informatics in the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “This new Expert Advice service line provides a streamlined way to gather valuable feedback from the populations we hope to serve, helping us design more community-relevant and participant-friendly clinical studies and trials…”
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