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How to Integrate Patient Voice Into Your Clinical Trial
Ensuring clinical trials are truly patient-centered is critical for the life sciences field. While the intention to incorporate patient input and feedback can be seen throughout the industry, clinical research studies often don’t rise to this challenge in practice.
How do you incorporate the caregiver in your clinical trial?
Caregivers are the biggest support system for many patients and are often working adults who provide care in their off-work hours to family members, spouses or children. Caregivers also look like the elderly providing care for a spouse, parents of children with disabilities, and home health aides. It’s these responsibilities that they already face in their daily routines that are making it difficult get participants enrolled to in-clinic site visits and typically, traditional trial designs create competing priorities for caregivers and their patients.
Maximizing participant engagement in your clinical trial
Some estimates indicate 85% of trials are failing to recruit enough participants and 80% are delayed due to recruitment challenges and high dropout rates.1 This challenge has been long-standing within the industry, and the adoption of decentralized approaches offer a promising strategy towards maximizing participant recruitment.