Conserve and dispense reusable kits

Want to reduce waste? If they're not expired or damaged, some of the kits returned to the site by a subject can be conserved, and re-dispensed to the same subject.

Clinical supply managers can now set their studies to conserve reusable kits that were brought back to the site by subjects. And site users can now dispense these conserved kits to the same subjects during the next visit in the study.

A reusable kit is a kit that can be safely re-dispensed to a subject because it is still sufficient to meet the needs of the subject and the study. For example, a subject might have unexpired medication left from a previous dispensation that can be used in place of dispensing a new kit. Sometimes, that product can be conserved by the system, and you can re-dispense it to the same subject during the next visit.

Already working in a live study?

The setting for allowing kits to be re-used and re-dispensed by site users is set to No, by default.

As a clinical supply manager, you can specify the right supply settings for your study as soon as the upgrade is complete. As a site user, you can start conserving reusable kits and re-dispensing them as soon as your study is configured for that feature. Other than that, existing studies won't be affected in any way by this new feature.

Read more about how this change affects...

• Clinical supply managers
  Clinical supply managers can now configure supply settings to allow site users conserve and re-dispense reusable kits that were previously dispensed to the same subject.
• Site users
  Site users can now determine if a kit from a previous visit can be conserved and re-dispensed during the current visit. This workflow is available for scheduled, unscheduled, and titration visits.