Datatrak EDC vs. Paper A Head to Head Comparison datatrak.com marketing@datatrak.com EDC & Medical Coding The pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries are constantly optimizing how they collect, process, and manage clinical data in an effort to streamline the clinical trial process. Specifically, collecting data electronically has served as an effective method over traditional paper collection for over 30 years. It is estimated in 2021, 94% of clinical trials user prefer electronic data capture (EDC) instead of paper. USING CASE REPORT FORMS Both the paper and EDC methods required case report forms (CRFs) to be created, reviewed and approved. However, paper CRFs incurred significant printing costs and shipping expenses to distribute, and, then ship the CRFs back

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