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.

When you think about what makes or breaks a clinical trial, the first things that spring to mind might be recruitment, protocols, or data monitoring. But there’s something much quieter, often overlooked, that has a huge impact on data quality: the humble Case Report Form (CRF).