Challenges in Multi-Country Clinical Trials
A multi-country clinical trial that runs smoothly is a triumph of co-ordination across regulatory systems, healthcare infrastructures, languages, cultures, and time zones simultaneously. When it goes wrong, it can go wrong in a dozen directions at once.The promise of running trials across multiple countries is significant: access to larger and more diverse patient populations, faster recruitment through geographic spread, simultaneous regulatory submissions in multiple markets, and the ability to generate data that is generalisable across global populations. But each of these [...]
