Patient Recruitment Featured Articles

  1. Feels Like Home: Designing Sites For Patient Comfort 12/18/2024

    Cold, stark, and purely functional, healthcare settings have long lacked the comfort and familiarity of home — until now. Uncommon Cures has used the science of hope to inspire its cozy, comfortable new trial site.

  2. Sick, Well, Or Somewhere In Between: Understanding The Patient Decision To Enroll In A Clinical Trial 12/18/2024

    Participating in clinical research involves profoundly personal and practical psychosocial considerations. Clinical Behavioral Healthcare Specialist Emily Epstein explains.

  3. I AM INCLUDED: 8 Best Practices For Sites To Drive More Inclusive Clinical Trials 12/13/2024

    Discover the I AM INCLUDED framework, along with the actionable practices it provides to help all types of clinical trial sites extend the reach of their research.

  4. Leveraging RWD With AI To Enable Diverse Recruitment In Clinical Trials 12/11/2024

    A diverse cohort of clinical research participants is vital to developing studies that are representative of the target population. Real-world data (RWD) can be paired with AI to integrate unstructured data.

  5. Diversifying Diabetes Trials with DAPs, Omics, And Community Engagement 12/10/2024

    General practitioner and medical director Dr. Luke Twelves emphasizes the importance of more inclusive clinical trials, discussing the role of -omics and the potential impact of FDA-mandated diversity action plans (DAPs).

  6. Let's Fix The Tax Burden On Clinical Trial Participants 12/10/2024

    We all know that patient retention is lowered once a participant realizes the tax implications of being in a clinical trial. But taxes should be the last thing they have to worry about, so why can’t we get some changes made? 

  7. Seeing Firsthand The Transformative Impact Of AI On Pharmacovigilance And Clinical Research 11/27/2024

    Consultants Aashna Goyal and Guriqbal Singh share first-persona accounts of how AI is transforming pharmacovigilance and clinical research by improving data processing, enhancing decision-making, and accelerating drug development.

  8. 2024: Familiar Problems & Encouraging Progress 11/27/2024

    For part 1 of my 2024 recap, I asked various industry experts what stood out to them this year regarding the clinical trials industry. They mentioned significant challenges related to site capacity, enrollment, workforce changes, and trial complexity, but they also seemed encouraged with some of the efforts and emerging solutions that will address these issues.

  9. Patient Weighs Altruism, Self-Preservation, And Historical Mistrust In Decision To Enroll In Trial 11/22/2024

    In part three of this series on underserved patient enrollment, patient advocate Bill Allen shares why he enrolled in a clinical trial for both himself and the Black community.

  10. Enrollment Mishap Emboldens Patient To Advocate For Minority Participation 11/21/2024

    In part two of this series on underserved patient enrollment, PAN Foundation patient advocate Tony Newberne shares how narrowly missed trial enrollment and how the experience inspired him to advocate for clinical research in minority communities.