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Ask HN: How do you manage a startup that goes through a clinical trial?

1 pointsby jascinationover 4 years ago
After any resources, stories or info that you&#x27;ve got!<p>I&#x27;m working with a university and government-backed NGO who want to deliver healthtech products backed by science. But the nature of the services means that they must go through 3-6 month clinical trials to prove their efficacy (and a further 6ish months of data analysis and reporting).<p>In startup world, we make an MVP, we test it on users, we get results and iterate, constantly testing and improving.<p>In psych clinical trial world, we create an intervention (let&#x27;s say an app), we spend 2-3 months recruiting participants, then spend 3 months monitoring users without changing a single thing, to see whether the intervention is successful. Then we wrangle all the data and write a paper on it.<p>This means that you can&#x27;t really change anything for months, but it also means that if you DO change things after the trial is over, there&#x27;s a risk that the new product is no longer clinically valid.<p>Anyone dealt with this type of thing before?

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