How can we measure the quality of a Hypernet-based study?
You can benchmark time, cost or data quality. Time is shorter than paper based studies as you do not have to collect any paper CRF, there is a unique study database, because data cleaning is semi-automatic and because the query process is integrated in the system. Costs are cut as monitoring visits are significantly reduced (30% on average), producing significant cost savings. In fact, with Hypernet monitors/CRAs already know the data before viting the centre! When on site they can concentrate more on source data verification than on CRF checks. Finally: in case of problems they use the eQuery tool, like any other user. Moreover, you don’t need to print any CRF, nor distribute it, nor collect it. You also don’t need to fax anything or to ask investigators to fax you anything (this can be very expensive for international studies). Data quality is significantly increased because the largest part of the data is cleaned at source (the system truly helps the investigator), while the remaini
