Electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) in clinical trials are an effective way to gather data and include the patient voice in your trial while reducing the burden of entering data from paper forms. In a clinical trial that uses ePRO, a vendor can either provide an electronic device for the study, a site can buy devices and download an ePRO app, or patients can use their own devices.
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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week, a week dedicated to raising awareness of mental illness, which affects approximately 1 in 5 Americans in a given year.
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What is Mild Cognitive Impairment? Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) causes slight but noticeable memory changes and thinking problems. These thinking problems are worse than those associated with normal aging, but not as severe as Alzheimer’s disease memory loss symptoms.
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More than 5 million people live with Alzheimer’s today. By 2050, that number could rise to as high as 16 million. Currently, there is not an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s symptoms or anything that slows or stops the disease. Researchers are also investigating what steps we can take to prevent the disease in the first place.
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