Clients often ask if we are able to provide recruitment reporting and metrics. What’s our answer? Yes, we’ve been doing it for years!
When you hire an agency to support your patient recruitment and retention efforts, you deserve to know what they are doing and if it is working.
At CSSi, we pride ourselves on the transparency we deliver throughout all of our recruitment campaigns. This truthfulness and the access to reporting we offer builds a channel of communication between us and you, our clients.
At every step of the way, you will know the services we are implementing, the progress we are making, and your overall return on investment.
• 24/7 access to CSSi’s client reporting portal
• Actionable weekly reports and insights
• Weekly client calls to review the information and make informed decisions together on the best ways to move forward
• Number of responses processed through our pre-screening technologies
• Number of referrals generated for your study
• Status of activities performed by our Local Enrollment Specialists
• Site by site progress on referral status and follow-up
• Top disqualification reasons to help you evaluate your protocol/IE criteria
Each week, our team reviews this information to analyze how our campaigns are performing. We take a deep dive into each method of recruitment we implement to see the results it is generating. Once each method is reviewed, we present our recommendations to you and have an open discussion about the best way to move forward.
It is equally important to understand what approaches are and are not working well, so that together we can build a path forward that will lead to patient recruitment success for your studies.
Building an open pathway of transparency, honesty and accountability is how we create partnerships with our clients. We truly believe in this and work hard everyday to bring you results that can make a difference.
Interested in learning more about our reporting process and scheduling a demo of our portal?
Clients often ask if we are able to provide recruitment reporting and metrics. What’s our answer? Yes, we’ve been doing it for years!
When you hire an agency to support your patient recruitment and retention efforts, you deserve to know what they are doing and if it is working.
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Patient recruitment is often a time-consuming and high-cost step in completing your clinical trials. Your marketing team will have to develop the correct study message and a strong call-to-action to get people motivated to see if they prequalify. You must strategically target your patient population and generate interest in participation among this audience.
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The COVID-19 virus has significantly changed the way the world operates. It has caused unprecedented interruptions to many industries and businesses around the globe, and clinical trials are no exception. New guidelines have been issued by the FDA regarding clinical trials, which could have a significant impact on study enrollment and patient retention.
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As you begin the patient recruitment process for your study, it can be tempting to put all of your money towards one method. You place all bets on digital advertising because that generated the most referrals during your last study. What happens if digital doesn’t perform for you this time? It’s best to spread your advertising budget out over a number of recruitment methods. This gives you the ability to truly test what is most effective.
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Identifying and implementing ways to increase diversity in clinical trials is a growing topic in the industry. Almost 40 percent of Americans belong to a racial or ethnic minority, but roughly 80-90 percent of participants in clinical trials for new drugs are still disproportionately Caucasian.1
In order to make sure drugs and treatments are safe and reliable to all people, there needs to be a better representation
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You’ll often be faced with more work than there is time each day. Meeting with patients, scheduling appointments, fully informing patients at time of consent, training study staff, conducting study procedures, working with sponsors, advertising for the study and recruiting patients... the list goes on and on.
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We all see others do it, and we probably experience it ourselves it every day.
Watching videos and tv shows on devices other than the TV in the family room, catching up on your favorite sitcom on-demand because you weren't home to watch it at 8pm when it originally aired, or streaming videos on YouTube to pass time. As the years go by, technology and media are changing – and so is how we are using them.
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Each year, $1.89 billion is spent on patient recruitment for clinical trials.1 With a 30% average dropout rate across all clinical trials, many pharmaceutical companies are spending a large amount of money to recruit patients who aren't staying enrolled in their trials.
Needed study data for regulatory submission and the overall success of a clinical trial depend largely on study participants fulfilling their roles and responsibilities until the very last day.
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One of the top places sites look for (and sponsors depend on) when recruiting patients for clinical trials is their database of patients. It has been a go-to method of recruitment for years. In a recent study, however, only 27% of sites report being fully satisfied with their current recruitment methods, including site database searches.1
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Within the world of patient recruitment for clinical trials, delayed timelines and unforeseen budget issues are often the norm. But, what if just a bit of strategic planning up-front decreased the possibility of these barriers?
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As a research study is in its early planning phase, sponsors and CROs dedicate a significant amount to identifying and selecting the research sites who have the ideal database of eligible patients for their study.
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As a sponsor, CRO or site, there are a surplus of patient recruitment companies you can turn to when you need help finding patients for your studies, and that number grows higher every day. Most of these companies offer a niche service, but very few are a full-service, global recruitment agency like ours.
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We've all heard it before: "traditional advertising is dead." But if that were true, why are we still seeing commercials on TV, hearing ads on the radio, and seeing billboards on the highway during our morning commute?
Because it's not true! Traditional advertising is still very much alive and used by some of the largest companies worldwide.
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If you’ve been following along with our past blogs, you have gained insight into:
You're going through the checklist of everything needed to get the awareness efforts for your study up and running:
You have:
There are about 93 million Americans searching online for information related to a health-related topic, with 63% of those individuals looking up a specific disease or medical problem. In fact, looking for health or medical information comes high on the list as one of the most popular activities people do when they are
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Let's imagine two different scenarios:
A: You're sitting in a doctor's office, and you see a poster for ACN-053-2414, a clinical trial testing medication for acne in adults.
B: You're sitting in a doctor's office, and you see a poster for the Face It Acne Research Study, a clinical trial testing medication for acne in adults.
