Clinlife

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ClinLife is a commercial service offered as an Internet portal by Clariness, which supports study centers in patient recruitment for clinical studies . Interested healthy volunteers as well as patients who either suffer from an as yet untreatable disease or who are unsatisfied with their current therapy can register with ClinLife and receive detailed study information on the basis of which they can apply as participants if necessary.

According to Clariness, ClinLife is the largest European portal of its kind and is also represented on the North American market . The portal was opened in December 2005 with the aim of improving the conditions for conducting clinical studies, to the benefit of both patients and research companies. The ClinLife offer is free of charge for prospective students and is financed through contracts with the commissioning research companies and institutes. Clariness is headquartered in Zurich and has offices in the UK , Germany and the USA .

history

The vast majority of clinical studies require more time to complete than planned due to a lack of patients. This delays drug development and gives those affected late access to new and more effective treatments. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act in 1997 required the NIH to set up a public clinical trial registry, which went online in 2000 as ClinicalTrials.gov and is used internationally. The language used is English.

In 2005 a group of doctors and web developers decided to set up an internet platform for easy mediation between subjects, patients and test centers. At the time, there was no central database for clinical studies aimed at patients in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. It was not possible for the study centers to publish their studies in a central, constantly updated German-language register, nor were patients and test persons able to obtain easily understandable information about clinical studies in German on the Internet.

In December 2005, ClinLife went into productive operation with a diabetes study that was carried out in Berlin-Charlottenburg . The first use was successful, as many patients who had informed themselves about this study on ClinLife later participated in the study. Due to this first positive experience, ClinLife's offer was expanded to all of Germany in 2006. A few months later, ClinLife was also available in Austria and German-speaking Switzerland . In 2007 the original name of the portal was renamed from Clinical Research Germany to ClinLife and the underlying content management system was optimized for multilingual use. In the same year, the first studies were published in Great Britain and potential study participants were given support in making contact.

In 2008 ClinLife expanded again. The platform has now been extended to Belgium , the Czech Republic , France , Italy , the Netherlands , Poland and Portugal . At the end of 2008, ClinLife had over 1 million visitors. In 2009, ClinLife expanded its platform to the US and Canada . Shortly afterwards, Hungary and Turkey were added. According to Clariness, more than 600 clinical studies in over 60 indication areas have been published since it was founded and more than 30,000 potential study participants have been referred to the study centers.

Current situation

In 2010, ClinLife was available in 11 languages, 16 countries and has 120,000 active members. The portal provides general information on clinical pictures and clinical studies, publishes specific studies and provides information on the aim and importance of each study, on working methods and ethical principles. A search function supports both healthy volunteers and patients in their search for clinical studies on a specific clinical picture in a certain region. During the application process, applicants are checked for compliance with the criteria for participation using an online questionnaire. You can then choose to be automatically forwarded to a study center. A newsletter service informs members regularly via email about new studies that are suitable for them.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CenterWatch Staff. An Industry in Evolution. Third edition. CenterWatch Inc., 2001, ISBN 978-1-930624-41-2 , p. 204.
  2. ↑ SpineMark: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Delays in Clinical Trial Completion. (PDF; 213 kB) CRO Management Inc. San Diego: 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / spinemark.clinisite.com
  3. ↑ Jerry Miller: The EHR Solution to Clinical Trial Recruitment in Physician Groups. In: Health Management Technology. August 20, 2009, accessed June 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Roan, Sahri: Medical clinical research slows for lack of patients. LA Times, March 14, 2009.

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