Recent nytimes article on challenges of clinical trial recruitment (CTR).
Forty Years' War - Lack of Study Volunteers Hobbles Cancer Fight - Series - NYTimes.com
This is a cut on the challenges of CTR that I hadn't thought of before - the factoid that a patient has to spend 196 eight hour work days over the course of five years is unbelievable - that's two months of work a year you're committed to the trial. Most of the pharma conversation is about just trying to find the patients or the step prior - clinical trial feasibility(can we even find enough patients to do this trial) - but less around the challenges to a trial participant.
Interesting piece. More thoughts soon -
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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ReplyDeleteThe challenges of recruitment are highlighted, detailing impact of study design, characteristics of participants, including demographics and personal preferences, investigator characteristics and collaboration with clinicians. Thanks a lot...
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