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Patient Diaries

Advantages of IVR Patient Diaries

Administering patient diaries via interactive voice response (IVR) is an efficient and accurate way to gather periodic longitudinal data from study subjects. Collecting patient diaries electronically affords a sponsor many advantages over paper diaries:

  • Adherence is increased: electronic diaries have shown 90% compliance rates compared to only 50% with paper diaries*
  • All entries are date and time stamped, so adherence cannot be faked (electronic diaries cannot be filled out retrospectively)
  • Individual and overall study adherence can be tracked
  • Timing of subject entries can be controlled via time windows
  • Data transcription errors are eliminated
  • Complex branching and scoring of assessments is available
  • Sponsors have immediate access to data

Why Choose IVR over Wireless Terminals?

Although both IVR and wireless terminals offer substantial advantages over paper diaries, IVR offers several distinct advantages over wireless devices:

  • Telephones are far superior to wireless devices for 23% of the U.S. population who are functionally illiterate
  • Subjects are familiar with the telephone, making completion of diaries easy and convenient
  • Sponsors do not incur hardware supply or support issues (no upfront costs for devices, no loss of device, no battery replacement, no local data download, no distribution or monitoring of devices)
  • Sponsors have immediate access to real-time data-no need to wait for the subject's data to be downloaded
  • Less training of sites and subjects is needed

Why Healthcare Technology Systems?

We are the leaders in creating clinical IVR systems. Our clinicians and researchers provide systems optimized for IVR delivery.

Examples of our IVR Diaries:

  • Alcohol/Tobacco Use With Craving Measures
  • Asthma Symptom Diary
  • Headache Severity Scale (HSQ)
  • Hypertension Monitoring Scale
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Monitoring System
  • Life Chart Manual (Bipolar Disorder Symptom Diary)
  • Pneumonia Monitoring System
  • Short Musculoskeletal Functional Assessment (SMFA)
  • Side Effects Monitoring Scales
  • Sleep Diaries
  • Custom Diaries and Scales

*Goff, Michael, High Throughput Clinical Development Series, Part I: Emerging e-Clinical Technologies, PRTM Industry Report, 2001.

 

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