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COVID-19 and the APAC CRO Landscape | Avance Clinical featured in Biospectrum Asia

By January 5, 2021July 13th, 2021Company News

“Australia has been recognized globally for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with strict quarantine systems and advanced contact tracing, resulting in low numbers of cases and deaths. Therefore we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of USA sponsors moving their trials to Australia.” Read the full article here

The global disruption presented a number of operational challenges including:

  • A need to rapidly pivot to full adoption of eClinical technologies because traditional working practices and methods were no longer practical.
  • Initially, patient/volunteer participation in clinical trials decreased at some sites because participants were not wanting to attend clinics or hospitals for fear of the virus.
  • Some sites in Australia were temporarily closed while they introduced new work practices to protect staff and patients/volunteers.
  • COVID-19 studies targeting countries with significant patient populations, rapidly dominated the global sector, resulting in decreased attention, site resources and funding for non-COVID related therapies.
  • Employee adaptions to new working environments i.e. working from a home office.
  • Conduct of business development activities needed to change as the ability to create new business connections and partnerships via conferences and face-to-face meetings became no longer possible.

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