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Article: Web-based vs. Web-enabled Clinical Trial Solutions.
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- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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although the terms "Web" and "Internet" are frequently attached to a software solution, the way they actually work can be quite different. The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry is rushing to embrace the Internet as a powerful method of collecting clinical trial data. Most clinical trials today still use a paper-based management system, which is time consuming and error prone. Over the last 20 years the complexity of clinical trial testing prior to a new drug application (NDA) has grown tremendously. Not only has the number of trials per NDA almost doubled since 1980 to 72, but the number of patients per NDA has grown from 1,500 to 4,200. Along with the increasing ...