One of the trials currently preparing to go live at Spiral is PLATIPUS, an Australasian platform trial led out of the University of Melbourne, focused on improving outcomes for babies born prematurely.

For research nurses, the way a question is built in the CRF can be the difference between a clean lock and a month of queries. Here’s the ‘why’, plus better patterns you can use (or ask your data team for) in Spinnaker.

One of STEPCARE’s strengths is the pace at which new sub-studies can be activated. Because the infrastructure is designed to support that, lead investigators can open a sub-study at selected sites, enrol participants immediately, introduce new data fields or timepoints, and run multiple pieces of work in parallel — without slowing the main study.