Why Decentralizing Clinical Trials Helps With Patient Recruitment And Retention

Patient recruitment and retention can be a challenge at various points in the clinical development process. Research suggests these challenges can lead to delays of between 1 to 6 months for most clinical trials. More, 11% of clinical research sites fail to recruit any subjects, with 37% of sites missing their recruitment target to. Worldwide, over 80% of trials don’t enroll their required subject populations on time— leading to a study extension. Introduction of new study sites and increasing costs.