Bridging the Gap Between Patients and Researchers

Bridging the Gap Between Patients and Researchers

Now more than ever we need to bridge the Gap between patients and researchers. G2 can help your physicians conduct clinical trials in their office settings.

The planning of clinical trials to test new drugs for safety and effectiveness is no picnic under the best of circumstances.  It requires a grasp of medicine, pharmacology and statistics, among other disciplines.  However, when the disease or syndrome for which the drug is intended is not well circumscribed but is instead a spectrum of entities, it can be far more difficult.  That makes the concept of “enrichment” critical.

Clinical trials are not designed or intended to show the effectiveness of a treatment (drug, medical device or other intervention) in a completely random sample of people in the general population.  Instead, researchers use a variety of strategies to select a subset of patients in whom the intervention will likely be demonstrable.  This process is “enrichment,” the prospective use of any patient characteristic (including laboratory test values) to select subjects in whom detection of an effect is more likely than it would be in an unselected population.

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