Patient Recruitment Articles & Analysis
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Clinical trials are the backbone of modern medicine, responsible for bringing innovative, safe, and efficient treatments to market after rigorous testing and evaluation. However, the conventional process of conducting these trials has often been long, expensive, and fraught with inefficiencies¹. The advent of predictive analytics is reshaping the landscape of clinical trials, ushering in a ...
In the case of studying the effect of a new drug on blood pressure, we could recruit patients with high blood pressure and randomly assign them to one of the three groups. ...
Clinical study launched in June 2022 with patient recruitment in Alberta with plans to expand to further sites across North America. ...
Revisiting the “why” behind decision making can be a helpful exercise in all aspects of business. This is no less true for clinical operations executives when it comes to the clinical trial systems they employ to facilitate their teams’ work. The technology that supports clinical trial systems has evolved steadily over the past several decades, yet the ultimate goal of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed the implementation of decentralized clinical trials in neurology, bringing the immense benefits of clinical trials to light. This industry-wide push towards trial decentralization has emerged as a key element for improving clinical trial efficiency and improving the experience for patients and physicians. By utilizing digital technologies, such as wearables, ...
This leads to longer timelines that increase costs and decrease revenue. Patient recruitment requires a substantial investment of time and money. Failure to recruit can also cause costly delays or trial cancellation – wasting resources. ...
There’s been a huge emphasis on developing new treatments to improve survival in patients with cancer, but these trials have become a costly undertaking for sponsor companies. ...
Clinical operations executive leaders within these companies can use this planning process to make investments that address common barriers to achieving their department’s goals: Lack of sufficient resources Incomplete data aggregation Inadequate technology support These problems are often related and represent different aspects of the same issue – inefficient processes and ...
Prospective observational cohort study with clinical outcomes data collection. Recruiting adult patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and diabetic retinopathy (DR), who lack history of cardiovascular ...
The title of the paper is "LAG-3 expression on peripheral blood cells identifies patients with poorer outcomes after immune checkpoint blockade". This connection was found in a group of patients with metastatic melanoma and was validated in a second group of patients with metastatic bladder cancer, indicating that this potential biomarker may ...
The study is also greatly benefiting from further expansion into the US with the addition of a new patient recruitment site at an award-winning United States clinical research institution ("Partner"). ...
Researchers at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, U.K., are recruiting 20 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who can walk at least eight meters with a walking aid to test the effectiveness of a five-week exercise program using assistive robotic technology. A patient completes balance and strengthening exercises using the Rex robot. ...