Successful clinical trials rely on accurate ratings by competent raters – not just at study outset, but throughout the course of a trial. To support our clients, UBC supplemented its rater training and certification (RTC) program with its proprietary In-Study Ratings Reliability program, called IR².
This program is designed to:
- Increase concordance with standardized scoring conventions
- Maximize inter-rater and intra-rater reliability
- Minimize placebo response
- Ensure appropriate patient randomization
Addressing problems that classically have a negative impact on clinical-rated instruments (e.g., rater variability, rater turnover, rater drift, patient selection and cultural variance), IR² offers a suite of in-study solutions ranging from refresher training to centralized ratings.
Our user-friendly, protocol-specific ratings reliability tools have been designed to drive standardization and uniformity of diagnoses and clinical data.
We can accommodate a range of vehicles:
- Paper-based
- Fax-based
- eCRFs
- Hand-held data collection vehicles (e.g., PDAs)
- Videoconferencing
Once data discrepancies are discovered, UBC offers in-study tutorials in peer-to-peer discussions to clarify scoring approaches and reinforce protocol conventions. Ultimately, whether a sponsor chooses to use our systems to target raters for individual monitoring or to remove them, UBC’s In-Study Ratings Reliability program is a proven system for achieving greater study success.