Open AccessInnovation in Clinical Trials is Possible: The Hidden Opportunity in the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Emergency
Author(s) -
Valeria L. Scarano,
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Davide Smaldone,
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Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical trials and practice: open journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2771-7380
DOI - 10.17140/ctpoj-3-113
Subject(s) - fragility , covid-19 , clinical trial , coronavirus , disease , pandemic , test (biology) , medicine , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , outbreak , paleontology , chemistry , pathology , biology
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) emergency has clearly shown the need to discover, test and produce a new vaccine but also in general the fragility of the current chain of clinical trials. Through this emergency, is it possible to look at the current clinical trial processes with new eyes? Is it possible to seize the opportunity for change and to have confidence in the possibility of their improvement? In this short article the authors wanted to give an optimistic answer to this question by pushing on the possibilities of innovation nowadays.