A Review: Virtual Clinical Trials

Abstract

Virtual clinical trials allude to clinical trials that take advantage of digital technologies, including computer and mobile device apps, web-based tools, and remote monitoring devices, for one or more of the trial processes, such as participant recruitment, informed consent, counselling, measurement of endpoints, and adverse event monitoring, to prevent or lessen the need for participant visits to the trial site. The advantages of such trials may comprise higher recruitment rates, lower dropout rates, better compliance, reduction in time for trial completion, and lower costs. The use of such trials elevated multitudinous during the COVID-19 pandemic and is likely to continue in the future.