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How to avoid duplicate patients

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Some basic concepts that we must take into account in order to avoid a situation that will make our studies lose time, money and more important than that: quality.

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How to Avoid Duplicate Patients? By: Dr. Alejandro Contreras
How to Avoid Duplicate Patients? www.trialjoin.com 2 Enrolling duplicate patients in a study can pose significant issues for data integrity, quality, and analysis. Even the smallest number of duplicate patients can be the reason for a trial failure. Because of this, sites have to figure out how to prevent this occurrence. If the study that you’re currently working on at your site is also being conducted at other sites, especially if these sites are in the same area, you face the risk of enrolling duplicate patients. As we all know, this can often happen with studies that compensate patients for participating, so many of them will try to enroll at multiple sites just for the money. Regardless of the reason, in such cases, you will need to check for duplicate patients. While there are many different ways to do this, including fingerprint systems which can be really expensive, the best way is always the simplest! In order to avoid enrolling duplicate patients, get the suspicious participants’ initials and date of birth. Next, call the sponsor, CRO, or the project manager, and ask them to check the initials and the date of birth in their system. Like this, they’ll quickly be able to see if the patient has already been enrolled in a trial elsewhere. This is by far the best, easiest, and cheapest way to check for duplicate patients. So, feel free to do this each time a patient looks suspicious.

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How to avoid duplicate patients

  • 1. How to Avoid Duplicate Patients? By: Dr. Alejandro Contreras
  • 2. How to Avoid Duplicate Patients? www.trialjoin.com 2 Enrolling duplicate patients in a study can pose significant issues for data integrity, quality, and analysis. Even the smallest number of duplicate patients can be the reason for a trial failure. Because of this, sites have to figure out how to prevent this occurrence. If the study that you’re currently working on at your site is also being conducted at other sites, especially if these sites are in the same area, you face the risk of enrolling duplicate patients. As we all know, this can often happen with studies that compensate patients for participating, so many of them will try to enroll at multiple sites just for the money. Regardless of the reason, in such cases, you will need to check for duplicate patients. While there are many different ways to do this, including fingerprint systems which can be really expensive, the best way is always the simplest! In order to avoid enrolling duplicate patients, get the suspicious participants’ initials and date of birth. Next, call the sponsor, CRO, or the project manager, and ask them to check the initials and the date of birth in their system. Like this, they’ll quickly be able to see if the patient has already been enrolled in a trial elsewhere. This is by far the best, easiest, and cheapest way to check for duplicate patients. So, feel free to do this each time a patient looks suspicious.