Clinical trial compliance triples with electronic diaries, says CRF

Patient compliance to protocol in clinical trials using electronic diaries is more than three times that for paper-based trials, according to research released by CRF, a global provider of electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO). Accurate, timely and complete patient data improves the quality and reliability of patient reported data, the company says.

CRF's research also showed that pensioners are the most compliant demographic when using electronic reporting tools, dispelling the belief that technology negatively affects their compliance rating.

The trials, which were conducted on almost 30,000 subjects across 23 different therapeutic areas in 42 countries, also revealed geographic and gender differences where compliance to clinical trial protocol is concerned. Women were on average 13% more compliant than males and Indian subjects were the most compliant of all geographies, says CRF.