Patient-First Rapid Site Activation Accelerates Timelines

By Hady Khoury, ICON

In traditional real-world, observational studies, only about one-quarter or so of all study sites usually enroll the majority of patients, while another 15 percent or so never enroll even one. Yet, the cost of assessing, training and activating a site, and then maintaining it for two to three months while waiting for the first patient, is the same no matter how many patients are finally recruited.

Patient-First Rapid Site Activation can greatly reduce the time and cost spent on non-performing sites by never activating them in the first place. In addition, it can accelerate study timelines by activating sites in a few days rather than a few weeks, and improve performance of successful sites by ensuring they are fully engaged with actual patients from the day they are activated.