UBC offers unique programs to help ensure accurate ratings by health care professionals and patients throughout the course of a trial and to increase the likelihood that research will produce clinically meaningful results.
UBC's customized video surveillance helps improve data quality by monitoring and tracking raters and sites during the duration of the study. If data discrepancies are discovered, UBC offers in-study tutorials in peer-to-peer discussions to clarify scoring approaches and reinforce protocol conventions. Sponsors use our systems to identify raters for individual monitoring or to remove them from a study.
We supplement our rater training and certification with a proprietary in-study ratings reliability program, called IR²™. This program is designed to:
IR² has been designed to address many of the problems that can have a negative impact on study data collected using subjective study instruments, including 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 ratings reliability tools are user-friendly and protocol-specific and have been designed to drive standardization and uniformity of diagnoses and clinical data.
Our tools accommodate a range of vehicles:
Video Enhancement of Rater Interviewing For Independent Evaluation of Data
UBC’s VERIFIED™ system provides continuous monitoring and support to the sites and raters throughout the study with the use of remote systems that are uploaded and reviewed by a UBC clinician or National Language Expert. VERIFIED™ helps improve data quality by assisting sponsors in their goal to ensure that ratings are done carefully, thoughtfully, and in accord with study conventions. The custom developed, fully compliant system is designed to:
