Days for patients in clinical trials increasing

In this article at ClinPage, they discuss a recent study that found clinical trial time periods had significantly increased between studies done ranging from 1999 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2006. The study found that the median number of days in clinical trials had doubled and stood now at 598 days, or 19 months. The article goes on to explain that the reason for the increase in time spent on clinical trials was the goal to achieve more accurate data recording throughout the clinical trail process. Medidata is trying to record all data collected in clinical trials, along with detailed efforts to integrate electronic data capture into the process. Better data collection will also allow for better comparison of data between similar trials.