Patient Recruitment

Patient Recruitment
Although it is estimated that every day lost in getting a drug to market is worth up to $1m, approximately 80% of clinical trials fail to finish on time. For most pharmaceutical companies, surveys have shown that the difficulty in recruiting patients is the single largest cause of delay to successful completion of a trial; approximately 85-95% of days lost are due to difficulties in patient recruitment.

The problem
The client was conducting a clinical trial into the prevention of a common condition among a population holding certain related risk factors.  Additional patient recruitment was required within a very short time scale. 

The aim
The key aim of this campaign was to rapidly recruit an additional 500 randomised patients to the clinical trial.

The outcome
essentiapharm successfully partially screened over 700 individuals in 3 weeks.

The benefits
As well as far exceeding the recruitment target of the client organisation, essentiapharm also provided the following benefits:

• The recruitment target was met within an extremely short time period
• Over 700 trial appointments were made through essentiapharm, which were promptly and accurately communicated to the appropriate local trial centre
• essentiapharm provided the client with white mail fulfilment, which included:
• issuing further information surrounding the condition to unsuitable individuals
• suitable individuals were issued information regarding the nature and details of their appointment, in order to maximise the chance of kept appointments
• A large database of potential future contacts was built up over the screening process

The cost
The final costs totalled approximately £40 per patient successfully screened.

To find out more about how essentiapharm can help you identify, screen and refer suitable participants onto your clinical trial, then contact Susan Pollock by phone on 08457 22 11 33 or email.