Conducting Clinical Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigator and Participant Perspectives

• Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance Vol. 6; no. 2; p. e18887
• Main Authors: Padala, Prasad R, Jendro, Ashlyn M, Padala, Kalpana P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 06.04.2020
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Caregivers; Caregivers - psychology; Clinical decision making; Clinical trials; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Decision making; Disease transmission; Health surveillance; Humans; Likert scale; Medical ethics; Medical research; Medical Staff - psychology; Older people; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Public health; R&D; Research & development; Research Personnel; Risk Assessment; SARS-CoV-2; Telemedicine; Viewpoint; Workforce planning; COVID-19; clinical research; infectious disease; outbreak; ethics; pandemic; public health

As the medical landscape changes daily with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, clinical researchers are caught off-guard and are forced to make decisions on research visits in their ongoing clinical trials. Although there is some guidance from local and national organizations, the principa...