Trialsights Blog

Insights for compliant, data-driven trials

Practical guidance on medication adherence, site surveillance, and AI-powered monitoring, written for sponsors, CROs, and clinical operations teams.

Buyer's Guide 5 min read

Clinical Trial Compliance Tools: The 2026 Buyer's Guide

How to evaluate clinical trial compliance tools in 2026: the core categories, must-have features, and a buyer's checklist for sponsors and CROs.

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Data Integrity 9 min read

A Vendor Deleted 47 Patients' Audit Trails

A vendor deleted audit trails for all 47 patients in Applied Therapeutics' trial. The 5 recurring FDA 483 audit-trail findings and how to prevent them.

Audit & Compliance 7 min read

Drug Accountability: The 483 Finding Nobody Talks About

Inadequate investigational-product accountability is one of FDA's five most common clinical-investigator findings. See what a drug-accountability 483 looks like.

Patient Adherence 7 min read

Self-Reported Adherence: 95% Say Yes, 38% Real

In FEM-PrEP, 94.7% of visits reported near-perfect dosing; only 38% matched drug in blood. See how soft adherence data blows your trial's power.

Clinical Operations 7 min read

Source Data Verification Costs the Most, Proves the Least

Source data verification in clinical trials corrects little CRF data and never sees a skipped dose. Compare 100% SDV, RBQM, and source-captured evidence.

Buyer's Guide 7 min read

Best Clinical Trial Audit Software: What Inspectors Actually Check

Compare clinical trial audit software by how records are made tamper-evident: audit-trail, eTMF, RBQM, and surveillance categories for sponsors and CROs.

Patient Retention 7 min read

Clinical Trial Retention: What Top Performers Do Differently

Where clinical trial dropout lands by therapeutic area, plus the operational habits that separate top-retention studies from the rest.

Patient Adherence 7 min read

Medication Adherence Measurement Methods: Why Pill Counts Lie

Pill counts and diaries systematically overstate adherence. Compare five medication adherence measurement methods on cost, gameability, and evidence.

Patient Adherence 6 min read

How to Improve Medication Adherence in Clinical Trials

A practical 2026 guide for sponsors and CROs: why participants miss doses, what poor adherence costs you, and proven strategies to measurably improve it.

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