Respect for the disease or condition that the potential treatment is designed to work on is another essential factor. When I talk about respect in this regard, I mean being aware of the ...
Respect for the other stakeholders in the field of patient recruitment is based on recognizing that everyone is fundamentally trying to do the best they can. There is often a finger pointing ...
In the final 3 short vids I’ll be doing this year before taking a break, I want to mention the core value that everyone involved in clinical trials should keep at the heart of everything ...
Most clinical trials have a series of procedures in place that are simply imposed on the participants regarding when and how they take part. For sure there are good reasons behind this. And ...
Following on from the idea of having a trial-specific website, I’m often bemused by the fact that sponsor organizations and CROs don’t seem inclined to have websites that are focused on ...
Despite this being 2023, nearly 2024 now, I still see plenty of clinical trials that don’t utilize the internet for recruiting patients. Certainly there are people who don’t go online all ...
Another method of recruiting patients into clinical trials that should be valuable is to use such things as a patient’s health records, lab test results, and insurance claims data. Obviously ...
Having mentioned doctor referrals, site databases, patient group and community outreach activities as ideally being the best methods of recruiting patients, we now come to the approach that ...
Continuing the theme of the best methods of recruiting patients for clinical trials, reaching out to patients ‘where they are’ is another approach that should be able to deliver good ...
Having looked at what I consider to be the ideal method for recruiting patients - doctor referrals - I’ll share a few other thoughts on the best methods of recruiting patients as things are ...