How 4Site can help your
organisation
15 September 2018
Need support with your oversight?
After database lock, all interest lies in the analysis of (hopefully) accurate
data. Yet it's often during the study conduct phase that the data is invariably
at its most critical stage - without effective oversight or grasp where the
issues are, the study outcome is at an increased risk level.
Authorities are increasingly emphasizing the need for sponsors to
demonstrate effective oversight of clinical studies (e.g. ICH GCP E6 (R2)).
Therefore data needs to be explored through different methods and via
different angles. Having data review plans is very well, but where is the proof
that oversight occurred?
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We envisage a number of scenarios whereby 4Site could help in your organisation..
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light on your study.
Imagine….
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…. a tool that is capable of the following:
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Data input from multiple EDC platforms (no need to duplicate!)
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Other data sources possible (e.g. IWRS/IVRS)
Provides you with study metrics/KPIs (query ageing, visit logging, data backlogs…)
Allows forecasting of future planned visits or effect of a data-cut date (e.g. how many visits
are going to occur in the next 6 weeks or up to certain cut-date)
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Granular data browsing (regional, country, site, patient level)
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Visualisations
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Customisable to include more than 200 KPIs, 50,000 patients
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Data export/findings into PDF or Excel
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Pre-drafted monitoring or study team reports
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Record and retain reviewer comments for future reference (no need to re-enter comments on
every review!)
….and much more…..
How can 4Site help?
•
Shed light on black holes: 4Site is able to plug those black-holes where user interaction
is low and the much needed study information flow is erratic or very resource-intensive.
4Site allows for fast user-adoption as the tool has been carefully programmed with a
multi-faceted cross-functional approach.
•
Finding needles in haystacks: 4Site allows users to visualise and de-clutter finding
needles in often 'hay-stacked' data without the need for additional programmed
extracts. Study statuses and 'what-if' snapshots are easily generated using near-time
data - these can all be compiled into reports.
•
How can 4Site sit alongside existing strategies/existing platforms? It’s been developed
to work with any clinical trial database (EDC or paper-based). 4Site itself is not an EDC! It
sits alongside an EDC to extrapolate critical datapoints that allow the system to build
various 'modules' such as metrics, cleaning status (i.e. data issues), tracking capabilities
(e.g. PK, central lab), specialist review tools (e.g. RECIST), and internal
resourcing/planning.
How can 4Site help?
•
Co-existence with other platforms: As part of the review/cleaning strategy, data review
plans will dictate how the data is being handled with a variety of programmed edit
checks (which may run into the thousands) and manual review listings. Furthermore
there may be additional supportive platforms that help analyse the data (e.g. Tableau,
Spotfire, J-review etc). 4Site can co-exist with these systems and capture studies that
can’t be fully supported.
•
Standardised reporting with multiple vendor/ EDC systems: Your organisation may have
multiple EDC platforms and support from multiple outsourced vendors (CROs) - 4Site
can bring together a standardised reporting structure for high level comparison of study
status and data issues across the board using 1 tool.
•
Catching the worm before the early bird: Often, a company may have multiple studies
that are outsourced to numerous vendors that adhere to the client's standards.
Typically, it’s only when database lock encroaches that it is apparent that the vendors
have had a different interpretation of the standards. It's only then that serious data
issues come to light.
How can 4Site help?
•
4Site - if adopted on all studies - permits for a standardised method for staff to track
study statuses and performance issues across the board and also allows for teams to
utilise standardised exported reports (rather than trying to understand multiple reports
from multiple vendors)
•
4Site allows for various specialist sub-tools/modules to be developed if needed by the
client. These can be merged into the 4Site tool, and include:
–
RECISTeX (In the pipeline): Tumour Response monitoring tool. Within oncology one of the primary
endpoints is Tumor Response where the endpoint is derived from multiple and repeated evaluations of the
tumor measurements across the study period. Often the way the data is collected and the way it is
structured within the database (a mix of information pulled from different panels/forms, study periods and
derived (calculated) variables) makes for an ineffective and inaccurate review. 4Site can aid in this area with
visualisations to show the reviewer the response evaluation and tumor size over time and highlight those
areas that may need to be queried or alerted to the medical reviewer.
– LabTrEx: Sample Tracking & EDC/Lab reconciliation (Under-development)
– Anything else?
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