In my last blog post, I wrote about findings from a first-of-its kind survey conducted by Imperial. We surveyed managers and directors of clinical operations, project managers, lead/senior CRAs, and patient recruitment specialists from sponsor companies, and ended up with a behind the scenes look…
Patient recruitment and enrollment are key contributors to delays in completion of clinical research trials. How do sponsors tackle their patient recruitment challenges? What priority are these challenges given internally? Imperial wanted to find out. We surveyed 160 line managers in clinical operations at sponsor…
The ESMO, European Society for Medical Oncologists, annual conference took place in Copenhagen over an extended weekend. I was fortunate to attend as a patient advocate which was quite an honor. There were over 20,000 delegates in attendance and just 150 European patients. Imperial CRS…
This is the second of two posts containing excerpts from our just-released ebook on proactive recruitment planning How do patients and caregivers gather information and make decisions about health care? This is an important question, because by identifying the most popular information channels, we can determine how best…
This is the first of two posts containing excerpts from our forthcoming ebook on proactive recruitment planning. CenterWatch data tells us that in clinical trials, too many patients who volunteer don’t qualify, or they leave the study after they are enrolled. 69% fail prescreening 58% decline…