Creating the Ultimate Clinical Study Dashboard: 7 Key Metrics

When it comes to managing clinical trials, staying on top of key data and metrics is essential to ensuring you are on schedule and meet regulatory guidelines. A well-designed study dashboard provides real-time insights into various aspects of your projects, helping you to make informed decisions and maintain the integrity of the trial. Here are seven key metrics to track on your study dashboard to enhance oversight and optimize performance:?

1. Average site activation time – the time it takes from site selection to the site being ready for patient enrollment. Reducing this time helps reduce the overall patient enrollment cycle.??
2. Planned vs actual subject enrollment –a comparison between the number of subjects you planned to enroll and the number of subjects actually enrolled to ensure you are on target with your selected sites.?
3. Upcoming milestones – including the time of recruitment, follow-up visits, completion of data collection, final report, and communication of final results.?
4. Adverse event reporting – the frequency and severity of adverse events reported during the study.?
5. Subject retention rate – the percentage of subjects who remain in the study until its completion.?
6. Data quality metrics – including the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability of the data collected during the study.?
7. Financial metrics – such as resource allocation and budget adherence, including costs incurred versus budgeted expenses.?

As a project manager, tracking these key metrics will provide valuable insights into the study’s progress and enable you to address potential issues proactively, and to ensure that the trial stays on track and within budget. Having these metrics on your study dashboard will enhance oversight, improve efficiency, and ultimately contribute to the success of your clinical research.