An article published in 2015 by Ken Getz, Associate Professor at the Tufts University, and a director at the Tufts Center for the study of Drug Development, shows the statistics of average delays (per indications) in patient recruitment for clinical trials. Although not surprising, the results indicate a big difference between the planned period for […]
In a matter of very few years, the Internet become a very powerful platform that has changed forever the way we do business, and the way we communicate. Online patient recruitment is part of that world trend. But what do you do when Google refuses to advertise your campaign? As a way of business, Google […]
An academic article published by Prof. Zohar, the former president of the Executive Committee of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, et-al, finds that not only online recruitment exposes the study to significantly more people, enable faster recruitment and result with a higher nominal numbers of randomized patients, it also shows that the patients targeted by online […]
Good recruitment is one of the key elements that will directly affect the clinical trial success.
And yet, although so important, it is still customized to leave recruitment at the hand of the sites and rely on their good will and performance.