Remote Methods for Conducting Tobacco-Focused Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT: Most tobacco-focused clinical trials are based on locally conducted studies that face significant challenges to implementation and successful execution. These challenges include the need for large, diverse, yet still representative study samples. This often means a protracted, costly, and inefficient recruitment process. Multisite clinical trials can overcome some of these hurdles but incur their own unique challenges. With recent advances in mobile health and digital technologies, there is now a promising alternative: Remote Trials. These trials are led and coordinated by a local investigative team, but are based remotely, within a given community, state, or even nation. The remote approach affords many of the benefits of multisite trials (more efficient recruitment of larger study sample

SUBMITTER: Dahne J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454765 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature