Optimized Laboratory Kitting Is Key To Successful Clinical Trials

By Fiona Geiger, Yourway

Clinical trial supplies and laboratory kits are critical components in the consistent, compliant, and efficient execution of clinical trials. The validity and utility of clinical data depends on the standardization of treatment and patient monitoring, which requires ensuring that all necessary materials are provided to investigator sites (or patients and homecare nurses in a decentralized clinical trial (DCT) paradigm) and that all materials used in the administration of treatments and the collection of samples –– from the experimental treatment to comparator or concomitant medications and ancillary supplies like syringes and blood collection kits –– are consistent to limit any potentially confounding variables that might impact the data. Besides assembling the materials themselves, it is critical that they are appropriately labeled and combined into laboratory kits that are complete, well-organized, and properly targeted for temperature-controlled shipping and storage.