Patient Recruitment, Enrollment & Retention
Optimising patient recruitment and retention for trial success
WEP has the tried and tested strategies in place, which help optimize recruitment efforts, enhance patient experience, and minimize dropout rates – driving the success of your study.
Patient Recruitment, Enrollment and Retention is the pivotal and most challenging phase of a clinical trial. Setting appropriate eligibility criteria, meeting informed consent requirements, and utilizing patient engagement strategies all play a crucial role in ensuring timely recruitment and maintaining patient engagement and retention. All of this is essential for trial integrity and data completeness.
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Patient recruitment is one of the most challenging components of any clinical trial. 80% of clinical trials fail to meet recruitment timelines and 30% of trials are terminated due to insufficient enrollment. The challenges stem from a combination of regulatory barriers, patient-related issues, and logistical complexities – WEP is here to help you overcome these with expert patient recruitment strategies.
Effective screening and enrollment in clinical trial (CT) recruitment is vital to ensure patient safety, regulatory compliance, and trial success. Proper screening identifies suitable participants, minimizing risks and protocol deviations. Efficient enrollment enhances retention, reduces delays, and improves data quality. The WEP project team oversees a well-executed process that optimizes this process ultimately leading to faster and safer enrollment.
We understand that having poorly managed sites is one of the biggest pain points for Sponsors and driving site engagement is vitally important for clinical trial success. To this end, WEP provides high-touch site management to support sites in retaining each subject while ensuring regulatory compliance, protocol adherence, patient safety, data quality, and a positive and engaged experience for each subject in the study. Our site support solutions are proactive, organized, and technology-driven, allowing us to provide dedicated, ongoing support, with open lines of communication and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Patient retention is crucial to ensuring the success of a clinical trial, as high dropout rates can lead to delays, increased costs, and compromised data integrity. WEP is committed to not only helping you find the right patients, but also helping you retain them throughout the full duration of the study. This will help you reduce costly trial delays & recruitment burdens, improve data integrity & compliance, enhance patient experience & satisfaction and strengthen site relationships
WEP Patient Concierge Services provide personalized support to participants, enhancing their overall experience. These services typically include travel coordination, lodging assistance, appointment reminders, reimbursement processing, and emotional support. Overall, concierge services make clinical trial participation more patient-friendly, improving both recruitment and long-term retention.
At WEP, our Nursing Support Services provide specialized clinical trial support to ensure patient safety, protocol compliance, and high-quality data collection. Our experienced research nurses play a critical role in patient engagement, site coordination, and home healthcare support, helping sponsors run efficient and patient-centric clinical trials.