eCOA: Has It Lived Up to the Promise? A Realistic Assessment for Today's Trials
Despite two decades of technological advancement, the debate between paper and electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) remains unresolved. This webinar revisits the assumptions that continue to shape data collection strategies and examines whether current practice reflects today’s eCOA capabilities or institutional habit.
Paper is often framed as the “gold standard,” yet paper-based patient-reported outcome data can be incomplete, error-prone and difficult to verify. Missing data, illegible entries and protocol deviations identified late in the study remain persistent challenges. At the same time, common objections to eCOA, including device reliability, build complexity and translation burden, no longer reflect current platform capabilities.
This webinar will explore when paper remains a defensible modality and when eCOA offers stronger advantages for data quality, compliance monitoring and auditability. Viewers will gain an evidence-informed framework for selecting the right modality based on site infrastructure, patient population, instrument complexity and study needs.
Watch this webinar to learn how eCOA in clinical research can improve data quality, reduce operational risk and support more informed modality selection.
