I have experience with clinical trial recruitment services - most recently with a company that uses social media. They seem to be most useful for studies where the investigator needs to recruit outside their practice or available patient databases and can provide pre-screening services with referral if they pass the general screening (i.e., age, gender, diagnosis and other inclusions and exclusions that do not require physician examination/testing). Contracting seems to be fairly quick, and would be particularly for a NSR device not requiring IRB approval. It is always a challenge to determine whether they are cost-effective and the most important metric is the percentage of screen failures that get referred by the service. I think the size of the trial and number of centers is less important than whether the investigators need assistance in identifying patients outside their practice/database.
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Glen Park PharmD
Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Jersey City NJ
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-Feb-2020 15:00
From: Anonymous Member
Subject: Clinical Trial Recruitment
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Not really a regulatory topic, but thought I would give my inquiry a shot here:
Does anyone have experience with using a clinical trial recruitment service? I am interested in rough estimate on lead time from contact to contract to on-boarding and outputs of recruitment analysis. Also looking for general opinion on whether a service is warranted for a small RCT ( < 5 institutions participating) of a NSR therapeutic medical device. Any other insight would be tremendously helpful.
Thank you!