COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Efficiencies, Leadership Alignment: What Can Be Carried Forward
Executive Summary
Operational actions, organizational responses and clinical development model improvements led to a 26-month acceleration, on average, in a set of COVID-19 vaccine pivotal trials versus similarly sized pre-pandemic studies, with the database lock and analysis stage delivering dramatic gains, a study by IQVIA Institute indicates. Can these benefits be recapitulated across the portfolio in the post-pandemic era?
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