StudyU: A Platform for Designing and Conducting Innovative Digital N-of-1 Trials.

ABSTRACT: N-of-1 trials are the gold standard study design to evaluate individual treatment effects and derive personalized treatment strategies. Digital tools have the potential to initiate a new era of N-of-1 trials in terms of scale and scope, but fully functional platforms are not yet available. Here, we present the open source StudyU platform, which includes the StudyU Designer and StudyU app. With the StudyU Designer, scientists are given a collaborative web application to digitally specify, publish, and conduct N-of-1 trials. The StudyU app is a smartphone app with innovative user-centric elements for participants to partake in trials published through the StudyU Designer to assess the effects of different interventions on their health. Thereby, the StudyU platform allows clinicians and resea

SUBMITTER: Konigorski S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9297132 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature