What is the role of standardized scale in the evaluation of eCOA electronic clinical results?

Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment (eCOA) has been published for more than 20 years, and it has become the mainstream method to collect key outcome data of clinical trials internationally. In recent ten years, eCOA has also been widely respected and applied in China. Undoubtedly, we have crossed the "enlightenment period" of eCOA and entered the "mature application period", forming a more reliable and extensible solution based on various hardware, software and application systems.

However, in the process of successfully delivering the eCOA research, there are still some common thorny problems. From the beginning of the research to the launch, the required time has been stubbornly stuck in 12- 16 weeks. Although the research of eCOA involves a lot of contents, the electronic migration, implementation and localization of related scales have always occupied the main time of project start-up. Therefore, we need to actively cooperate with the scale author to develop the pre-approved scale and translation version, so as to deploy the eCOA scale at any time and speed up the testing process.

To this end, Medidata is actively cooperating with the world's leading scale authors and managers, and before the specific research needs appear, the scales that meet the gold standard are included in our eCOA scale library. Medidata's eCOA library-the first in the industry-currently contains more than 200 scales, which have been widely used in the industry, which can significantly shorten the research time and improve the research quality. Medidata found that in some studies, using the scale in Medidata eCOA library helped to reduce working hours by more than 50%.