Hollings Clinical Trials vs PI

This application is designed for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and research staff seeking information about cancer clinical trials available at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) and participating sites within the MUSC NCI Community Oncology Research Program for Minority and Underserved (NCORP-MU). Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate new approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and supportive care. This application is organized into cancer treatment, cancer prevention, and supportive oncology clinical trials. Cancer treatment trials can be explored by disease group, helping users find studies that may be relevant to their specific cancer type. Users can explore actively enrolling clinical trials through an enhanced search experience designed to help identify studies that may be a good fit. Trial listings include patient-friendly titles, summaries, keywords, study details, and contact information. MUSC employees with a MUSC Net ID can also access study documents such as protocols and informed consent forms. Users may click on the NCT link to connect to the CT.gov webpage and find the current trial eligibility criteria. All users can submit a contact request for help, and an employee of the Hollings Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office will respond.

PI-Support is a mobile platform designed by senior Principal Investigators (PIs) to accomplish the following tasks: * save PIs and their site teams time and effort, * support Junior Investigators and trainees, * increase patient engagement and retention, * limit screen failures, * broaden study awareness, * integrate local HCPs and * improve data quality. It largely achieves these goals by empowering PIs and maximizing their involvement. Specifically, it enables PIs to select and prioritize which study criteria they want displayed on their colleagues’ cell phones or mobile devices (making pre-screening in busy office clinics and/or hospital ward rounds much easier for all concerned); it extracts from study protocols the answers to common patient queries (obviating the need for PIs and Sub-Is to locate and review extensive study protocols); it helps to ensure the right patients are enrolled into the right trial by offering side-by-side comparisons of each competing trial; and increases study awareness by enabling site teams to share selected study information with their community-based referral networks. Finally, intra- and inter-site bulletin boards allow PIs and SCs to discuss their local and study-wide concerns/solutions with other site PIs and SCs, CRAs and study sponsors. Overall, PI-Support can be used as a stand-alone tool or seamlessly integrated into existing CTMS to provide broad spectrum, site support.