Crowdsourcing Clinical Trial Protocols

The design of a clinical trial protocol typically has input from a small research team—rarely more than 10 reviewers and usually far fewer.

And the number of patients who review a protocol in detail and offer input is typically… zero.

Now, though, a different kind of clinical trial is about to begin enrolling patients, a trial that used crowdsourcing to develop the protocol. The trial will evaluate the use of metformin in men with rising prostate-specific antigen after localized treatment for prostate cancer.

Faster trial development and increased patient accrual are among the goals.

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This article was originally published in Oncology Times.