Online, interactive evaluation of research performance
Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-12
PCRS
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[0013] Once a researcher is selected for the study, information about the study is entered into the database, e.g., at the beginning and end of the study and at 30-day intervals or less therebetween. The information concerns such things as the number of patients who have signed up and the number who have dropped out. Thus, benchmarks can be computed over time.
[0014] Study (clinical trial/protocol) specific benchmarks from one researcher, site and or organization can be anonymously compared with those from other researchers, sites and/or organizations. In one example of a comparison, four values of a benchmark are given: the highest and lowest values from the researcher, site and organization participating in the study, the median from all researchers, sites and/or or
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Currently no electronic mechanism exists that systematically and automatically provides clinicians and / or pharmaceutical sponsors with the ability to obtain interactive, real-time benchmarks and with those benchmarks better assess physician capabilities for matching physicians and research sites and with those data better assess physician capabilities for matching physicians and research sites for future clinical trials.
However, once the experts and their customers are matched, there is no evaluation of the work, which the former do for the latter.
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[0027] A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be set forth in detail with reference to the drawings, in which like reference numerals refer to like elements or process steps throughout.
[0028]FIG. 1 shows an example of a hardware architecture on which the preferred embodiment can be implemented. The design of the hardware architecture has been selected to follow the industry-standard N-tier architecture, separating site navigation and design from stored procedures and data. In that way, one part of the site can be redesigned without breaking another part of the site. For instance, the HTML which provides the user interface can be changed without affecting the stored procedures and tables of the database.
[0029]FIG. 1 shows such a hardware architecture 100. Client devices 102, which can be microcomputers or any other devices capable of communicating over the Internet, connect via any suitable connections 104, such as dial-up or cable modem connections, to the Intern...
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Medical and other research organizations, sites within those organizations, and physicians practicing at those sites register in an online database. The company providing the database posts a description of a clinical trial opportunity or other research opportunity. The company can search and match for physicians with research opportunities, or the physicians can browse the list of opportunities. Once it is determined who will perform the research and awarded a contract, performance data are collected at 30-day intervals over the life of the trial for computation of benchmarks. The benchmarks from one physician are compared anonymously to those from other physicians participating in the same opportunity.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention is directed to a system and method for evaluation of the performance and progress of research trials and more specifically to such a system and method, which provide benchmark metrics in real time. DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART [0002] In clinical trials for pharmaceuticals and the like, data must be taken over an extended period. For example, at intervals of time, typically 30 days, data must be taken on the number of patients who are participating in the trial, the number who have dropped out, the queries per patient, and the like. [0003] However, the data are typically collected and tabulated by pharmaceutical companies to manage their project timelines. Such information is rarely shared with the physicians and health-care professionals conducting the research studies for purposes of understanding how they are performing, how other research sites are doing and / or learning from other clinicians participating in the study about how to...
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CPCG06Q10/10G06Q10/06393G06Q50/22G16H70/00G16H10/20G16H50/70
InventorBLUMENFELD, TRACY HARMON
OwnerPCRS