Guest Opinion: Patient enrollment best practice model significantly improves timeline outcomes

The historically-viable expectation of study sites’ responsibility for timely enrollment, now juxtaposed against the dismal statistic that 85% of current research trials are not completed on-ti

By Editor on Jan 11, 2006

The historically-viable expectation of study sites's responsibility for timely enrollment, now juxtaposed against the dismal statistic that 85% of current research trials are not completed on-time , has mandated the quest for a new approach. Clinical trial enrollment can be problematic for a variety of reasons: Low subject (and referral source) eligibility awareness, overly-demanding protocol inclusion/exclusion criteria, and multiple competitive studies seeking the same population.

However, this problem can be significantly remediated through adoption of a new and forward-looking patient recruitment practice.

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