Flexible Solutions Provide Critical Site Support

By Kerry Leyden and Caroline Potts, Medical Research Network

Across the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research sites face many challenges. Individual sites vary widely in size, available resources, therapeutic areas, and other factors. The support they need differs as widely as the sites themselves. To ensure sites can fully participate in lifesaving studies, they need flexible, tailor-made solutions that can evolve and adapt to each site’s unique needs.

Clinical research isn’t tidy and predictable, and sites may not always know what help they need upfront because their needs can change throughout the trial. For example, sites working with rare disease patients may need help meeting recruitment deadlines, screening, and randomization. Sponsors, CROs, and solution providers working with these sites need to provide support in whatever form they need, whether it’s pausing the study to recruit more patients or helping restart the study when the site is ready.

Frequently, sites need support across multiple areas. By offering flexibility, we can provide a responsive resource available to support sites’ evolving and varied needs so that they can successfully complete their trials.