From Wikipedia the term Biometrics has two meanings,
Biometrics (ancient Greek: bios ="life", metron ="measure") refers to two very different fields of study and application. The first, which is the older and is used in biological studies, including forestry, is the collection, synthesis, analysis and management of quantitative data on biological communities such as forests. Biometrics in reference to biological sciences has been studied and applied for several generations and is somewhat simply viewed as "biological statistics."
More recently and incongruently, the term's meaning has been broadened to include the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits.
In comes another colloquial term "Biometrics" used by CROs and Clinical research organizations can mean anything from Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, and Clinical Data Management. One common usage is to indicate number of days before database was locked following Last Subject Last Visit (LSLV), and what percentage of studies were finalized according to plan etc.,
May be it is time to stop using this term and directly refer to what we meant whether it is finger printing or statistical reporting or database locks that we are talking about !!!
Hi ..brief any example in using biometrics in Clinical research.I am unaware of it?
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hello sir,
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Biometrics as I mentioned is a vague term and its meaning and use depends on the content
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Biometrics when defined as measurements associated with clinical subjects relates to clinical data analysis.
So in your study if you are doing biostatistical analysis that would be "biometrics" in one sense.
As a measurement technology
Telemetry is used a lot in clinical trials to record patient heart rate, pulse etc, from a remote location.
FDA has a separate division focussing on telemetry and related remote sensing techniques : Link