Diversity action plans—focused on enrolling representative numbers of participants in clinical trials from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic populations—are part of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance published in April 2022....
Both recruitment and retention can be improved by making small changes to techniques and implementing cost-effective methods to reduce barriers and make participants feel more included in the overall research process....
If “recruiting and screening patients who try new treatments and monitoring and reporting on patient progress” sounds like a reasonable, if skimpy, definition of the duties of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) at a clinical trial site, imagine the surprise of a newly minted CRC...
Clinical trials represent a critical path to innovative treatments, life-changing cures, and medical progress. But for all their scientific rigor, most trials fail to include one crucial element: input from the very people they aim to help....
UW Health is looking for 75 people to test a new Lyme disease vaccine that targets more strains of the tick-borne illness than a little-used shot taken off the market more than 20 years ago....
Being a clinical trial participant, especially in an interventional trial, is a sacrifice of time and body and represents a true commitment on the part of the patient....
Restrictive eligibility criteria has been a concern for many oncology researchers, who believe these trials should reflect a broader real-world population....
Are clinical trials struggling with recruitment due to a lack of time and resources for proper customer service?...
As CVS, Walgreens, and other retail pharmacy giants permeate the clinical trial space, questions remain about the effective integration into the pharmacists’ workflow....
Doing more to acknowledge the important role of clinical trials participants could help with recruitment....
