LifeSci Talks
Hosted by Mark Wade of TransPerfect Life Sciences, LifeSci Talks is an informal, informative conversation that focuses on a variety of themes and topics in the life sciences space.
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The "Frankenstein Instrument" Problem Why Some PRO Measures Don't Fit Today's Patients (opens the original)
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Are the COA Instruments we've relied on for decades still measuring what matters to patients today? In this episode, Mark Wade sits down with Kathrin Fischer PhD, Patient-Centered Outcome Strategy Lead at Boehringer Ingelheim and ISOQOL Director-at-Large Term: 2024 – 2027, to challenge some long-held assumptions in the COA space. They examine why some legacy instruments were built for a different era, what gets lost when items are stitched together from multiple measures, and whether computer ad
Why eConsent Still Isn’t Standard in Clinical Trials—and What Could Change That (opens the original)
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In this episode of LifeSci Talks, Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader at TransPerfect Life Sciences, sits down with Edwin Cohen, Principal Consultant at C&Flow, to talk about eConsent adoption in clinical trials. They discuss the research behind why animated, electronic consent is better perceived by patients, the fragmented technology landscape sites have to navigate, the plain-language and health-literacy challenges baked into consent forms, and the timeline and budget pressures that keep eConse
Nothing Remains the Same: Why Measures Have to Evolve (opens the original)
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In this episode of LifeSci Talks, Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader at TransPerfect Life Sciences, sits down with RJ Wirth, CEO and Consulting Psychometrician at Vector Psychometric Group, to talk about why the measures we rely on are living things rather than fixed artifacts. The two discuss why keeping a rigorous measure is often harder than building it in the first place, walk through why studies still run on out-of-date versions and translations, and reflect on what happens when one of these
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