Driving Progress | Essential Resources from Ecraid
Explore our latest findings and leverage Ecraid's evidence to inform your next breakthrough.
At Ecraid, part of our mission is to generate the robust evidence needed to transform infectious disease research and clinical practice. This "Resources" page is your gateway to a curated collection of white papers, strategic insights, and foundational documents crafted by our experts.
Designed for both academic leaders and industry innovators, these resources offer critical perspectives and actionable data to accelerate advancements in diagnostics, prevention, and treatment across the infectious disease landscape.
Adaptive Platform Trial Design | Enhancing clinical research efficiency.
Discover Our Latest White Paper
Efficient, Ethical, and Impactful Research and Healthcare.
This white paper offers a comprehensive overview of the APT landscape.
It explores the advantages and potential of APT design in addressing the challenges of traditional clinical research and the pivotal role of organisations like Ecraid in advancing this innovative methodology to improve patient care.
Collaborations like Ecraid and bold innovations such as adaptive platform trials will assist in mitigating large-scale social and economic disruption linked to infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
Put simply – adaptive platform trials, embedded in warm-base clinical trial networks, such as Ecraid, are the future of clinical research and the building blocks to more efficient, ethical, and impactful research and healthcare.
Collaboration and Innovation
Infectious diseases (ID) pose significant challenges to both global health and economies. Soon, major challenges will result from increasing numbers of infections caused by antimicrobial resistant microorganisms and emerging (and re-emerging) infectious diseases.
Collaborative efforts are needed to conduct well-designed studies that generate high-quality evidence for diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic approaches to combat ID and safeguard public health for future generations.
White Paper | Warm-Based Networks
An innovative approach to selecting the best sites for your clinical trials.
Advancing clinical research through warm-base networks.
Ecraid was built around the concept of 'warm-base' networks: a novel approach to doing clinical research that increases the speed, efficiency, and quality of trials. Our inaugural white paper lays out the principles of warm-base networks, as well as their advantages over traditional site selection. It also provides practical advice on how to set up such a network and offers a concrete example of an existing one, Ecraid’s hospital network CLIN-Net.
This resource is useful to those who conduct multi-centre clinical research themselves, as well as to anyone with a vested interest in finding the most suitable sites for their trial faster and more efficiently.
Warm-base networks
In clinical research, sites are often chosen for a trial on an ad hoc basis, resulting in longer set-up times, higher costs and suboptimal match between sites' capabilities and a trial's needs.
Rather than a temporary collaboration, a warm-base network is a permanent infrastructure in which trial sites with a common focus are engaged in recruiting patients in one or more clinical studies on a continuous basis. It is supported by a coordinating team which uses its deep knowledge of the sites’ capabilities and experience to match each study with the sites that best fit its needs.
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