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VirTrial Announces Service for Virtual Site Monitoring Visits to Allow CRA’s Continued Access to Research Sites During COVID-19 Pandemic 

VirTrial

Virtual Pre-Site includes delivery of HD live-streaming glasses that enable an on-site Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) to provide a remote Clinical Research Associate (CRA) access to all aspects of the site virtually simply by walking through the site wearing the glasses.

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Diversity in Clinical Trials: Tackling the Issues in Alzheimer’s Research at AAIC 2021

XTalks

Their findings: 60 percent of trials included exclusion criteria that could disproportionately apply to these minority participants. This analysis was based on the identification of over 2,700 individual exclusion criteria that the research team organized into 56 categories.

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A Whole Different Kind of Research Rodeo: ACRP Marks Five Years of Medical Device Certification

ACRP blog

Medical device trials, however, are typically smaller in scale and require fewer phases [than drug trials]. The information from this site goes on to describe how medical device studies are divided into three different classes, rather than into the familiar phases of drug studies.