As we saw last year as people with ALS swarmed over social media and support group meetings to recruit peers in a promising Neuraltus clinical trial, a day saved recruiting patients is as valuable as a day waiting for data analysis or an approval later.
It would be interesting if subjects (and others) had three simple time lines for every clinical trial --
- An optimistic version if every step were to go swimmingly well
- An expected version
- A pessimistic version featuring some worst-case timing
Sometimes we have visions of data sitting somewhere waiting for a meeting to happen on a certain date. Sometimes we have visions of stacks of papers growing yellow with age at the FDA.
If we had a much clearer picture of what can be expected and who does what and what patients can affect themselves, would it not make for a better process for everyone?
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