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Virtual Clinical Trials: Need in the Current Pandemic
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JUNY SEBASTIAN, SHILPA PALAKSHA, BALAJI S, TEGGINAMAT PRAMOD KUMAR
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Virtual clinical trials (VCT) are technology driven new approach to conduct the trials in a digital platform. Conducting clinical trials virtually is an option to avoid the problems faced by the researchers in the traditional method, such as delay in recruitment, delay in site start up activities, problems in distribution of study materials, delay in ethical committee review process, suspension of hospital activities and lack of clarity on regional restrictions of movement. Despite the benefits, VCTs has limitation such as unclear regulatory framework, problems in data protection, and biased recruitment of study population as VCTs enroll study participants with some technical knowledge. Research that needs continuous medical intervention by the health care team also cannot be performed virtually. To avoid unethical practices in virtual conduct of clinical trials, ethical guidelines on VCTs also needs to developed and implemented for the same.
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Pandemic, Virtual Clinical trial, VCT
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.314
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