5 Proven Ways To Expand Clinical Trial Site Capacity

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Clinical trials with ocular endpoints often stall when enrollment surpasses available assessment capacity. Traditional, facility-bound models—limited by rooms, equipment, and staff—struggle to keep pace, leading to scheduling backlogs, participant dropouts, and inconsistent data. By replacing static site infrastructure with adaptive capacity architecture, sponsors can scale throughput, protect data integrity, and improve participant experience—without costly new construction. This approach turns capacity limits into enrollment momentum, ensuring timelines stay on track while expanding access to diverse patient populations.

Mobile vision clinics bring calibrated equipment and certified staff directly to participants or satellite sites, while modular on-site augmentation transforms under-utilized spaces into temporary assessment stations, separating high-demand procedures from routine clinic flow. Distributed networks and hybrid models are also useful when streamlining trial visits. In this article, we explore all five capacity multiplier solutions.