As a sponsor, when dealing with a patient recruitment solutions provider, you’ll want to have sight of particular metrics that give you a snapshot of how well things are going. If you have ...
Something that comes up quite a lot in projects that I advise on is the lack of visibility and transparency afforded to the CRO or sponsor by the patient recruitment vendor. There are often ...
One of the key things we can do to retain patients on clinical trials - and also because it just seems to be the right thing to do - is reduce the burden of participation. People taking part ...
Patient advocacy groups can be a key stakeholder in the clinical trials process. I’ve been involved with many trials that never involve a patient group, and many that do. And the ones that ...
A major factor that can affect the success of a patient recruitment project is the number of people who express an interest in participating, but are then unable to be contacted to arrange ...
One highly-effective strategy for patient recruitment is a 4 step process. Firstly, attracting potential patients via an advert - such as on Facebook or YouTube. This could also be based on ...
There’s a few common payment models used by patient recruitment firms. The agency model where the client will pay a fee for the service. Any associated costs - such as advertising spend - ...
I visited a Royal Horticultural Society garden recently, and one of the things the tour guide pointed out resonated with me. There were several newly-planted copses of trees that looked ...
Involving patient groups in the patient recruitment process is a strategy that might seem obvious, but is rarely adopted successfully. One of the issues is that patient groups can be wary of ...
Community outreach is another strategy that can be adopted for recruiting patients for clinical trials. There are different ideas as to what it means - from such things as putting up posters ...