Wearable Data Gone Awry: Cautionary Tales from the Clinical Research Trenches
Wearable technologies deliver valuable clinical insights, and they also introduce new layers of complexity and risk for study design and clinical operations teams. Selecting a wearable technology that is well-aligned with your study population, endpoints of interest, and trial design is the first step in optimizing the quality of your data. Even after a technology solution has been carefully vetted, factors like missing data, data outliers, firmware updates, and poor participant compliance can threaten the integrity of your most valuable clinical asset - the data.