Not connecting with a targeted audience, failing to retain patients throughout the enrollment process, and not having relationships with study coordinators at the site level are just a few reasons why a clinical trial may not meet its initial enrollment goals and would need to quickly turn things around. When a Sponsor runs into any of these issues, Continuum Clinical can provide rescue support for a patient recruitment campaign within four weeks. The turnaround starts with the Sponsor reviewing updated content from Continuum in just a couple weeks, followed by getting the first referrals only a couple days following the relaunch of the patient recruitment campaign.
To support Sponsors who are experiencing delays in clinical trial enrollment, Continuum Clinical can create a specialized plan with an accelerated timeline that balances speed to market and precision targeting. The essential tactics we utilize to provide rescue support for a patient recruitment campaign include:
- Identifying barriers to a successful patient recruitment campaign. Our Global Site Solutions (GSS) can use this as the foundation of a strategic plan, which will rapidly increase the number of patients coming from the site database and other local referral services.
- Leveraging our 30 years of successful patient recruitment experience to quickly launch a digital media campaign, which will focus on social media platforms and search engines that the target audience actively uses.
- Working expeditiously to ensure that study sites are efficiently managing site referral performance to ensure that they are engaging and processing referrals, all the way through randomization.
- Monitoring and optimizing enrollment and retention performance through MERIS Analytics, which collects, visualizes, and models patient progress throughout the clinical trial funnel.
In late June, we were hired to recruit patients for a clinical trial focusing on a CNS disorder, which was struggling with enrollment after only a few months. We implemented a new campaign with an accelerated startup from contract signing to campaign launch. After only three months, the program is already surpassing expectations as it moves closer to reaching its enrollment milestones.
- Our recruitment program has exceeded inquiry projections by 234% and referral projections by 136%.
- Within 90 days, the outreach campaign generated 170+ referrals, which is eight times the number of referrals sent to the study sites prior to our engagement.
- There has been 20+ referrals scheduled for appointments, and six have been screened.
To provide rescue support for a patient recruitment campaign, mutual trust and clear communication of goals and tactics are required. Continuum Clinical has been providing fact-based patient recruitment solutions since 1993 and has established a track record of meeting and exceeding enrollment goals for clinical trials on behalf of a broad spectrum of companies, ranging from emerging startups to five of the top six global pharmaceutical companies.
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