Healthcare professionals (HCPs) would appear to be perfectly positioned for introducing the idea of trial participation to patients. They will generally have a relationship as a trusted ...
Direct to Patient outreach is the most common form of solution provided by patient recruitment vendors. It’s based on promoting a message about the trial directly to potential participants - ...
The most common method adopted by sponsors and CROs to plan for patient recruitment is to use the research sites’ existing databases of patients. Sites will have suggested how many patients ...
Another scenario where a patient recruitment solutions provider might get involved in a trial is what I recommend as the ideal way to bring them in - right at the start of the trial design ...
Patient recruitment solutions providers quite often only get involved in a clinical trial in order to try and rescue a situation that isn’t going well. When a trial is designed and the ...
When starting a new project, I like to use the mental model known as Inversion. This is where you aim for the opposite of what you actually want to achieve, in order to ultimately avoid the ...
Patients are the most important stakeholder in the whole clinical trials process. For people outside the industry, this may seem like an obvious statement - so they would likely be surprised ...
Patient recruitment solutions providers - or vendors - are brought in to increase the number of participants engaged with a trial. They usually focus on the elements of finding and engaging ...
Research sites are the front line of the clinical trials industry. Despite the large amount of discussion around Decentralized Trials - DCTs - especially since the advent of the Covid ...
CROs - Contract Research Organizations - are brought in by the trial sponsor to administer and manage the trial. Their core role is usually project management and overseeing the day to day ...