30 Sep Patient burden as an operational metric of clinical trial success

By Frankie Fattorini, Daily Newsletter

Patient burden should join standard operational metrics like cost, timelines, and regulatory compliance to ensure long-term clinical trial success, argues Christine Von Raesfeld, patient advocate with the Light Collective.

Von Raesfeld argued for greater consideration of patient experience in supply chain planning at the 2025 Clinical Trial Supply West Coast conference on 10 September in Burlingame, California. She stated that involving patient perspective earlier in clinical trial planning is instrumental to fostering not only participant satisfaction, but also long-term enrolment and retention for trial sponsors.

“The reality of trust right now is broken” in the clinical trials sector, said Von Raesfeld. “Trust is fragile; once it’s lost it’s hard to regain, especially with patient communities”. Von Raesfeld linked this lack of trust between trial participants and coordinators to supply chain planning which she says often fails to properly account for patient experience, in some cases preventing eligible patients from participating. Read more…