Clinical trial info page design

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Re-imagine clinical trial information in a patient-centric way

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Participating in clinical research can be a daunting step.

The presentation of information related to a patients involvement is fundamental to the success or otherwise of a patients recruitment and continued involvement.

The following materials describe methods that help assure initial and continuous engagement.

Preface

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The trial info page is devoted to patients who want to participate in a trial and are searching for studies based on their con-dition.

For these users, the most important items are to find out whether they are eligible for the trial and whether there are investi-gative sites available nearby.

Therefore, the focus of the front page of the trial info portal is as follows:1. We have highlighted the medical condition so that patients can be sure the trial is relevant for them. 2. We’ve also highlighted the trial title (patient friendly version), study type, phase, status, peri-od and sponsor info as well as a short descrip-tion of the study.

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We can have help hints for any medical terminolo-gy patients might not be aware of.

3. For example, clicking on the medication name will show hint with the description and clicking on the type of the study - will give patient information regarding interventional studies.

Then we have a couple of blocks:4. To help patients find site locations 5. Check their eligibility

Each tab in the portal will have:6. Header with study title 7. Footer navigation between sections

Introduction

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This page is simple:

1. Big search area with autosuggestion while typing (if patients arrived at trial info page from search page, where they have entered their loca-tion and condition, location will be automatically filled from that page).

2. Number of study sites in the area is displayed.

3. Scrollable list of locations is included on the right with brief info for each site and distance from the specified location.

If the user hasn’t specified his location, we will display a global map and the total number of sites participating in the study.

Locations

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4. Clicking the pin on the map or the site in the list on the right, will expand site details (5)

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For checking eligibility our suggestion is an online screening survey.

1. We can ask patient questions related to the inclusion/exclusion criteria.

2. Depending on answers we can show progress bar filled on top, with title “you are pre-qualified to participate in a trial”.

Of course patients typically can’t answer all of the eligibility questions themselves and these will need to be confirmed during their screening visit at the site. The ones that can be feasibly asked directly from the patient, like age, gender, existing diagnosis and if the user doesn’t meet these crite-ria the progress bar will become red and show the text that “You are not eligible to participate in this study”.

3. For some of the questions, the user is also presented to answer ‘Not sure’ and these answers do not disqualify the user, but will trigger a on-site confirmation of these questions.

4. Eligibility page has sidebar navigation for quick access of each section of the page, manually scrolling the page will highlight the active section.

Eligibility

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1. The left hand side of the screen has a table, which is divided into weeks or treatment cy-cles, study arm information and the schedule of events in each cycle or week.

Timeline

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The bar on the right has the full list of interven-tions and events and the user can scroll it man-ually and read one by one. Each element in the timeline table can also be clicked (3) and the list on right will be scrolled to the relevant section (4).

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1. This page includes patient friendly text about the study outcome measures. For this study, the text has been taken from the Informed Consent materials provided. After outcome measures we will have info regarding risks, benefits, study logis-tics and post- study plans.

2. This page also has sidebar navigation between sections and subsections.

Patient Considerations

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Responsive design

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Design is fully responsive, taking full screen, with fixed position of footer header elements, and flex-ible columns.

On mobile devices though, global navigation (1).between main sections will be hidden by default. Patient can access the navigation by tapping the menu button (2).

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This responsiveness can be achieved just with the use of CSS, no additional HTML will be needed for mobile devices, which makes maintaining the site simple. However, the structure of some pages will need to be changed. There is no space to fit the right sidebar, so it will be automatically hidden when using mobile devices.

Responsive design

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On the Locations page the sidebar is moved from the right side to the bottom of the page, display-ing only a single site (1) at a time, so patients will need to tap the pins (2). on the map to browse the search results.

3. Site location info can be expanded to show more data

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The presentation of information on the study remains complex – however, through the delivery of such information in a simplified form, it is possible to cre-ate an engaging experience for potential study participants.

This can lead later to ongoing enrollment and study engagement using similar visual representation and information delivery.

Conclusion

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I have provided screenshots of the actual area that fits the screen for all sections. More information is shown to the patients when the site is scrolled. For example, scrolling the eligibility area will show more criteria questions and demographic fields that are required by the rules. Same applies to the consideration sections - I have shown all the sections we will have on this page with items in sidebar. Clicking items in sidebar, or manual scrolling will show all the content required by the rules. Long pages that shows all required sections can be found in designpreviews folder - eligibilitylong.jpg and consideration.jpg.

Also such sections as eligibility or considerations dont have all the data, just all sections with several items in a section to showcase the design.

Additional notes

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