Recruitment into Clinical Trials: Between Rocks and Hard Places

Rocks and hard places: development research between neoliberal globalism and global neoliberalism

Recruitment and retention of patients into emergency medicine clinical trials.

The emergency medicine (EM) and prehospital environments are unlike any other clinical environments and require special consideration to allow the successful implementation of clinical trials. This article reviews the specific issues involved in EM clinical trials and provides strategies from EM and non-EM trials to maximize recruitment and retention. While the evidence supporting some of these...

Recruitment of subjects into clinical trials for Alzheimer disease.

Alzheimer disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of Americans. It reduces the ability of the individual to remain independent, places a burden on caregivers, and substantially increases healthcare costs. New treatments are being tested in numerous clinical trials with the goal of preventing or delaying the onset of Alzheimer disease, slowing or modifying the dise...

A telestroke network enhances recruitment into acute stroke clinical trials.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acute stroke clinical trials are conducted primarily at academic medical centers. As a result, patients living in rural areas are excluded from participation, results may not be generalizable to nonacademic settings, and studies may be slow to recruit subjects. Telemedicine can provide rural patients with emergency neurovascular consultation. We sought to determine whethe...

Patients Recruitment Forecast in Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are a long and tiresome process. Any misses here can delay time, add costs and result in missed opportunity. The leading culprit for missed clinical trial deadlines is the patient recruitment process. Patient enrollment is the most time-consuming aspect of the clinical trial process, estimated to take up to 30% of the clinical timeline. At the sensitive and crucial stage of deve...