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- Title
Use of Crowdsourcing for Cancer Clinical Trial Development.
- Authors
Leiter, Amanda; Sablinski, Tomasz; Diefenbach, Michael; Foster, Marc; Greenberg, Alex; Holland, John; Oh, William K.; Galsky, Matthew D.
- Abstract
Patient and physician awareness and acceptance of trials and patient ineligibility are major cancer clinical trial accrual barriers. Yet, trials are typically conceived and designed by small teams of researchers with limited patient input. We hypothesized that through crowdsourcing, the intellectual and creative capacity of a large number of researchers, clinicians, and patients could be harnessed to improve the clinical trial design process. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility and utility of using an internet-based crowdsourcing platform to inform the design of a clinical trial exploring an antidiabetic drug, metformin, in prostate cancer. Over a six-week period, crowdsourced input was collected from 60 physicians/researchers and 42 patients/advocates leading to several major (eg, eligibility) and minor modifications to the clinical trial protocol as originally designed. Crowdsourcing clinical trial design is feasible, adds value to the protocol development process, and may ultimately improve the efficiency of trial conduct.
- Subjects
CANCER research; CLINICAL trials; CROWDSOURCING; HYPOGLYCEMIC agents; PATIENTS
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014, Vol 106, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/dju258