The Language of eCOAs
Capturing how a patient functions, feels, and survives is a key part of understanding the benefits that a treatment has to offer during the development of new therapies. This type of information is captured with clinical outcome assessments, known as COAs.
Read on to learn more about COAs, and their electronic counterparts, eCOAs.
Benefits of eCOAs to clinical trials
Within the clinical trials industry, COAs have been traditionally completed with paper and pencil. However, capturing COAs on an electronic device, such as a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, is now commonplace. Known as eCOAs, these can be collected both onsite or remotely, and include ePROs, eClinRos, eObsROs, and ePerfOs.
The use of eCOAs provides many benefits to clinical trials, including improved data integrity and quality, reduced site and CRO burden, as well as the inclusion of a more diverse population of participants on account of the increased flexibility and reduced travel burden. Plus, they are an integral part of decentralized clinical trials (DCT), which don’t have a centralized location and instead meet patients where they are through telehealth or other remote solutions, allowing researchers to greatly expand who they can reach.
You can read more about how eCOAs benefit clinical trials and patients here.
If you are ready to get started with eCOAs, contact Medable today, your expert eCOA clinical trial partner.