A Virtual Home for the Virtual Clinical Trial
A Virtual Home for the Virtual Clinical Trial
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DOI：
10.2196/15582
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发表时间：
2020-01-03
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Persky, Susan
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作者：
Persky, Susan
虚拟临床试验（VCT）可以通过使用分布式技术解决方案来满足严格的临床试验需求，从而消除对物理试验场地的需求。本报告探讨了使用虚拟现实（VR）为VCT提供“虚拟站点”的潜在好处，VCT参与者可以在其中体验试验元素并与试验团队互动。VR是一种随着VCT的发展而出现的通信技术，尽管它们从未以实质性的方式合并。VCT范式中的许多差距都是VR擅长的领域。VR环境是标准化和精确统一的，该技术允许向参与者的视觉和听觉系统引入几乎无穷无尽的刺激，VR系统擅长捕捉精确的运动和行为数据。虽然VR尚未进入VCT，但通过过去几年的研究和技术开发，这种整合的大部分基础已经奠定。未来在VCT中实施VR可以将我们从无中心试验转移到具有虚拟中心的试验，该虚拟中心作为试验信息提供、与试验代表互动、评价和评估管理等的中心。
Virtual clinical trials (VCTs) can satisfy the need for rigorous clinical trials by using distributed technological solutions that eliminate the need for a physical trial site. This report explores potential benefits of using virtual reality (VR) to provide a "virtual site" for VCTs, a shared immersive hub in which VCT participants could experience elements of the trial and interact with the trial team. VR is a communication technology that has been emerging alongside the development of VCTs, although they have never been merged in a substantial way. Many of the gaps within the VCT paradigm are areas in which VR excels. VR environments are standardized and precisely uniform, the technology allows introduction of an almost endless set of stimuli to participants' visual and auditory systems, and VR systems are adept at capturing precise movement and behavioral data. Although VR has not yet found its way into VCTs, much of the groundwork for such integration has been laid through research and technological development achieved in the past few years. Future implementation of VR within VCTs could move us from site-less trials to those with a virtual site serving as a hub for trial information provision, interaction with trial representatives, administration of evaluations and assessments, and more.