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Podcast: Pharmacy Podcast Network
Episode: TWIRx: Evolution of Clinical Trials & Community Pharmacy
Description: The role pharmacists play in the community is the same one they should be playing in clinical research. Community-based clinical trials in general can be better for patient care, the pharmacy as a profession, and study sponsors who have long had trouble recruiting enough patients into their studies.
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Within the next decade, Gerald Finken, founder and CEO of RxE2 predicts, pharmaceutical companies will no longer be running clinical trials that exclude pharmacy professionals because it will simply be too costly and overly risky.
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When shipping drugs directly to patients, as has be...