Clinical Trial Site and Patient Centric Solutions

Our Solutions Clinical Development Site and Patient-centric Solutions

Patients are the driving force behind the quest to develop better, safer and more targeted therapies. But patients are often treated as a data source, rather than the reason for research.

PPD provides a custom suite of tools and technologies — and direct input from thousands of patients — to design better trials, generate accurate data and achieve meaningful outcomes to support your product development program.

Our Drivers of Study Success

Four pillars underlie our strategic approach to selecting the right sites and enrolling the right patients:

Strategic Feasibility

Leverages multiple sources of data to inform country and site recommendations, ensuring access to the right sites and patient populations most conducive to your protocol parameters
Performs analytics and predictive modeling to recommend optimal site-country mix and generate enrollment and timeline projections based on extensive data and experience
Cloud-based solutions through goBalto that streamline and automate selection and setup of the top-performing clinical research sites – more than 90,000 sites across 80+ countries to deliver significant savings and 30% quantifiable reduction in study startup cycle times

Clinical Innovation

Robotic process automation (RPA) teaches talking bots to do repetitive, scripted tasks, such as manual quality control review of documents for critical errors to increase speed, efficiency and accuracy
Our Preclarus® technology platform gives you full transparency on your study’s progress by consolidating and standardizing data from multiple sources and presenting it via a client-facing dashboard for real-time, instant access to enrollment numbers, site performance and other critical parameters of study progress

Patient Centricity

Gauges the patient and caregiver voices through protocol-specific surveys that identify potential issues with protocol design, patient recruitment and retention
Customizes patient concierge services to ease the burden of travel, scheduling, clinic visits and other logistical barriers to study participation
Engages with patient advocacy groups and patient advisers to guide your study design, planning and execution based on unique patient populations and protocol parameters
Designs patient-friendly outreach campaigns that validate their experiences and reduce fear and uncertainty surrounding clinical trials
Partners with disease-specific patient communities to enhance awareness and improve access to clinical trials as possible treatment options

Site Intelligence and Activation

Secures country-level approvals, drives document collection/ethics committee and regulatory submissions, and negotiates global site contracts and site budgets
Partners with goBalto to enhance our site selection and facilitates secure document workflow
Utilizes master agreements with sites and investigators to expedite startup process

AT PPD, PATIENT FEEDBACK INFORMS STUDY PLANNING AND EXECUTION

Crohn’s patient

I may look fine, but chronic inflammation took my energy, my happiness, my friends, and left me with pain and shame.

Lupus patient

Being willing to ask for help is the hardest thing to learn for most of us who were so independent.

Fibromyalgia patient

You have energy one minute and you want to take on the world, but then it knocks you down. Some days you feel less than, broken and disposable.

PPD Select Sites

PPD continually nurtures its strategic partnerships with leading research sites and site networks worldwide, matching you with top performers that have demonstrated their speed, skill, efficiency and quality across hundreds of studies.

By choosing the right combination of AES and PPD Select sites for your study, we create the optimal platform for achieving success:

Greater access to qualified patients
Faster site activation
More patients enrolled from fewer sites
Fewer non-enrolling sites
Expedited trial completion

Patient Data and Real-World Evidence Fuel Our Insights

100+ million-household database of fully identified, opted-in patients and 160+ global sites

Real-world evidence of patient perceptions, trial outcomes and market value

We survey thousands of patients annually to gauge their disease experiences and perceptions toward clinical trials.

We demonstrate your treatment’s real-world safety and impact on patient outcomes and identify which patients will benefit most.

We instantly prescreen patients for your study using their responses to shape your study design and our recruitment campaigns.

We simulate potential trial outcomes, using a range of variables, through advanced statistical methods and modeling.

We stratify and target patients by indication, gender, age, disease severity and other precise parameters to speed recruitment timelines.

We engage patient advocacy groups and consult with patient advisers to help plan your trial with patients’ needs in mind.

Site Solutions that Guarantee Results

In an industry driven by data, finding sites and patients can be frustratingly unpredictable.

To overcome this persistent challenge, PPD created an entirely new delivery model for clinical trial recruitment. Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES) provides the largest global dedicated site network with site management organization services to deliver more patients from fewer sites in less time.

100 million households of fully identified patients

160+ centrally managed global sites

Pay for Performance

AES removes risk from patient enrollment and site performance by charging a single, fixed price per patient at randomization.

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Other CROs have de-identified or pre-identified patient data, PPD has fully identified patient data

De-Identified Data

Where patients are anonymized data from medical claims, pharmacy and other large datasets with geographic disease concentrations.

Pre-Identified Data

Where patients are disease state information. Anonymized EMR data with only disease-specific information. Patients are not identified.

Leaders in Site Training and Performance

We continually re-envision and reshape how the industry does business to reduce inefficiencies, institute best practices and minimize the barriers to successful patient engagement and site performance.

SITECOACH

PPD’s SiteCoach offers robust training, coaching and support to health care practitioners who are new to clinical research. Our customized training program paves the way for a more successful experience for your patients and your practice, enabling you to offer more options to patients who are seeking relief or who want to contribute to medical research.

Through SiteCoach, you receive:

Comprehensive training and tools at each stage of the clinical trial process
Optimally timed training before, during and after the study to ensure continuity of support
PPD clinical development with more than 145 vaccine studies supported in the past five years
Virtual, in-person or hybrid training approach to meet your specific needs delivered as two- or four-module series
A user-friendly online interface that includes a learner community portal with resources and tools, a learner forum and mobile gaming designed to increase learner retention

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CRA ON-SITE MONITORING

When you work in tandem with PPD and Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES), you get PPD’s clinical development services and expertise plus AES’ patient access and site conduct capabilities in a single integrated solution that increases the speed and efficiency of clinical trials.

Our new, specialized clinical research associate (CRA) role is solely dedicated to monitoring and site-related duties at either a single site or a cluster of sites located within commuting distance, giving you the benefits of:

Improved efficiency through less travel and fewer process handoffs
Increased oversight with more frequent face-to-face interaction and training at sites
Increased speed through quicker on-site support and faster issue resolution

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Site and Patient-Centric Solutions