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Key Takeaways: How to Fix Clinical Trial Recruitment Bottlenecks More than 80% of clinical trials face delays due to patient recruitment challenges, ...

More than a third of the patients your sites screen won't qualify. The average screen-failure rate across trials reached 36.3% (Getz, 2019), and the ...

An Interactive Web Response System (IWRS) is the web-based software clinical research sites use to randomize patients and manage investigational drug ...

For years the industry quoted one number for a day of trial delay: $4 million in lost sales. It's wrong. That figure came from 1990s blockbuster ...

Every enrollment plan starts as a set of assumptions dressed up as a forecast.

Adding sites is the fastest lever when enrollment stalls. Here is why it fails, and what to run first. When enrollment falls behind, expanding the ...

Patients clear your eligibility criteria, ask to be contacted, then vanish before they enroll. So why does a trial full of willing patients still ...

Finding the right patients for your clinical trial can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. When enrollment stalls, timelines slip, and ...

Recruitment plans start with a headcount: this many patients with the condition, in these regions, so the trial is feasible. The math looks sound. ...