Determinants of performance measures of clinical trials: a study of Indian medical devices industry

Authors

  • Naga Rekha Gorantla Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3259.ijct20184400

Keywords:

Clinical trials, Sponsorship, Participant recruitment, Locations, Duration, India

Abstract

Developing new medical devices require extensive clinical investigations to enter the market successfully. In recent years, India has emerged as one of the attractive and most preferred countries to carry out clinical trials, primarily due to diverse human gene pool and cost-competitiveness. However, unlike other healthcare products such as therapeutic drugs, there is a lack of regulations over usage of medical devices. Moreover, prior systematic empirical analysis that examine the medical device based clinical trials is also not well established. This study attempted to ascertain the determinants of participant recruitment, selection of locations and time taken to conduct medical device clinical trials. Medical devices that are clinically tested in India in the period of 2008 to 2014 were obtained from CTRI website. 108 out of 279 records were identified as medical device clinical trial registrations. Collected data was analyzed to know the device type, disease category, sponsors involved, participant enrolment, locations and the duration of the device trial. In this study, the category of sponsorship, device type and disease category were found to have significant influence with respect to the selection of number of participants, locations and the time taken to execute medical device clinical trials.

Author Biographies

Naga Rekha Gorantla, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW Medical School

Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Department of Management Studies

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2018-10-24

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