Here’s a handy checklist to take inventory of your patient recruitment activities, from clinical planning through to enrollment.
It may be summertime, but those involved in recruiting patients for clinical trials know there’s no rest for the weary. Just as planning for a trip requires a checklist (what to pack, whom to notify, when to check in), recruitment planning requires the same.
Now’s a good time to pack more into your patient engagement and recruitment strategy — and to ditch efforts that aren’t producing the results you want. Think of it as insurance for your patient recruitment journey.
Use this handy checklist to take inventory of your recruitment activities:
| To do: | Action needed: | |
|---|---|---|
| Start early | Be sure to make patient recruitment part of the clinical planning process, beginning with protocol design | |
| Create awareness | Maintain a website to educate, engage, and enroll participants in your trials | |
| Build community | Offer a safe, secure environment to communicate with patients before, during, and after a clinical trial | |
| Pinpoint the right patients | Leverage RWD and AI to find protocol-matched patients for your trials | |
| Use the correct DTP approach | Determine whether your I/E criteria call for casting a wide net or more focused patient outreach | |
| Keep HCPs in the loop | Locate physicians treating protocol-matched patients and inform them of your trials | |
| Expand your reach | Join forces with partners such as patient advocacy groups, ad agencies, pharmacies, etc. | |
| Enlist the help of experts | Remember that it's helpful to bring in external subject matter experts to expand on your existing efforts | |
| Monitor your efforts | Keep track of what's working (and what's not) so you can course-correct |
We hope you find this checklist helpful. After all, you don’t want to fly by the seat of your pants when recruiting for your clinical trials.
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