First Patient In
Paul IvsinPatient enrollment best practices, worst practices, and just plain weird practices
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Do You Know Where Your Ads Are?
[A note on the ads used in this post: they were all served to me in the last few days. In that very short amount of time, I managed to get (poorly) advertised to by a majority of established patient recruitment companies.]
I have written a...
When Should You Fire Your Recruitment Vendor?
Given that enrollment is incessantly cited as one of the largest challenges in clinical trials, you’d be tempted to assume that recruitment vendor turnover would be very high. Any area where you’d expect trouble should also be the area you’...
How to (Maybe) Learn to Do Better
Last week I wrote about what I’d consider the biggest puzzle at the heart of clinical trial operations: things are terrible but somehow still fine. Everyone seems to be disconnected, inefficient, and on the verge of breaking … and yet someh...
Can We Do Better?
Probably the most controversial opinion I have is: Actually, drug trials are doing pretty OK. No one likes to hear this!
Have I not seen the stats? Protocol complexity is skyrocketing. Vastly more data is being collected.
Have I not heard...
(Less) Silly Vendor Math
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the practice of recruitment vendors publishing case studies that included an ROI of “time saved” on the trial due to their contribution to enrollment.
In that post, I included a couple of possible alternati...
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