Clinical research investigating novel treatments or therapies for Central Nervous System (CNS) diseases is as complicated and nuanced as are the conditions
Clinical research solutions for CNS trials
The clinical development process for novel therapies that treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases is scientifically and medically complex. Neurology and psychiatry clinical trials often require complex, subjective clinician-reported outcomes as primary endpoints, and can be associated with low success rates.
Signant’s unrivalled, deep, practical scientific and medical expertise in evidence generation for CNS indications, coupled with innovative clinical trial technology solutions and endpoint quality services, drive the highest quality clinical evidence for reliable and sensitive treatment evaluations. Our solutions encourage researchers to challenge accepted norms and outcomes in the quest to deliver novel symptomatic therapies and disease- modifying treatments.
Why choose Signant SmartSignals
Improve Signal Detection
Differentiate placebo
from active treatment response
Drive data integrity of
primary outcome measures
De-risk your CNS studies with Signant's solutions and services
Our in-house clinicians are expert raters, and use this expertise to drive best practice electronic implementation of clinician-reported outcomes in CNS trials. Our technology drives standardization of assessments and scoring to reduce between-rater variability, and improve data sensitivity.
We combine our technology solutions with specialist services that drive good data including study design consulting, rater training, tandem and central ratings, in-trial data monitoring and analytics, and placebo response mitigation. Leverage these CNS-focused solutions independently or together to address specific protocol requirements and drive endpoint data accuracy in CNS studies.
eCOA & Electronic Clinician Ratings
With dozens of built-in electronic neurology and psychiatry clinical outcome assessments, our eCOA platform minimizes rater errors by applying internal logic, edit checks, audio/video recording capability, and on-screen guidance to facilitate ensure accurate, reliable COA data.
Placebo Response Mitigation
Limit the impact of placebo response on study success through protocol-specific training for investigators, site staff, and patients delivered by Signant clinicians. Our training is proven to lower the impact of placebo response, driving cleaner assessments of treatment effects.
Rater Training & Certification
Leveraging our direct experience in CNS trials, our experts qualify, train, certify, and recalibrate raters throughout your studies to ensure consistency, accuracy, and standardization. Our technology enables gatekeeping of raters by qualification status to further safeguard study data.
Blinded Data Analytics
A must-have component to any CNS study, Signant’s unique analytics solution blends proprietary algorithms with clinical/statistical interpretation and analysis, helping study teams proactively mitigate data quality risks at all relevant levels of your study.
Central Review
Access a network of specialized, experienced raters who perform independent reviews of recorded assessments to validate scoring and administration consistency and accuracy, ensuring COA data reliability.
Scientific Consulting
Our unrivaled and highly-experienced team of CNS science and medicine professionals, as well as clinical trial technology and operations experts, actively partner with study teams from launch to closeout to optimize clinical data quality and CNS study outcomes.
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With technology solutions that address complexities inherent in CNS studies, as well as support from experienced project teams and therapeutic area experts, Signant provides a direct, objective path for improved CNS drug development research outcomes.