A Guide to Patient Recruitment: Today's Best Practices and Proven Strategies,9781930624115

A Guide to Patient Recruitment: Today's Best Practices and Proven Strategies

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ISBN13: 9781930624115
ISBN10: 1930624115
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Centerwatch Inc
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Table of Contents

Professionalizing the Process of Patient Recruitment: A History and Overview of Today's Issues
11(22)
A Brief History
13(1)
Recruitment Today
14(2)
Centralized Recruiting
16(1)
Changes in Institutional Review Board (IRB) Fee Structure
17(2)
Patient Recruitment Ethics
19(3)
Metrics-A Measure of Success
22(2)
Web-Based Recruiting
24(2)
The Relationship Between Patient Recruitment and Retention
26(1)
Geographic Nuances
27(1)
A Look to the Future
28(5)
Benchmarking the Process of Patient Recruitment: Practices and Behaviors in the Current Recruitment Climate
33(18)
Numbers of Patients Who Volunteer and Enroll in Clinical Trials Annually
34(2)
Characteristics of the Typical Study Subject
36(3)
How Potential Study Participants Identify Clinical Trial Opportunities
39(3)
Motivators of Clinical Trial Participation
42(1)
Industry Spending to Facilitate Patient Recruitment
43(8)
Ethical and Confidentiality Based Issues in Subject Recruitment Today
51(22)
Subject Recruitment
56(1)
Ethical Issues in Subject Recruitment
57(16)
Budgeting and Contracting in Patient Recruitment
73(24)
Before Budgeting
75(1)
Answering Key Questions
75(1)
Determining a Recruitment Funnel
76(1)
Considering Budget Factors
77(3)
Choosing a Centralized or Decentralized Budget Model
80(1)
Deciding to Recruit Competitively or Not
81(3)
Drafting a Budget
84(1)
Budget Components
85(2)
Other Budgetary Considerations
87(2)
After Budgeting
89(3)
Contracting
92(5)
Planning and Evaluating Patient Recruitment Strategies: The Proof is in the Metrics
97(22)
Overview of a Six-Part Plan
102(3)
A Case in Point
105(3)
Centralized Recruiting Initiatives as They Relate to Metrics
108(2)
Metrics and the Centralized Call Center
110(1)
Professional Tools for Tracking Patient Recruitment
111(5)
Metrics-Finally
116(3)
Protocol Design and Patient Recruitment
119(22)
Narrow versus Broad Patient Population
120(1)
Elements of Protocol Which Impact Patient Recruitment
121(6)
Case Studies
127(9)
Availability of an Open Label Extension Study
136(5)
Media Strategies and Tactics for Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment
141(14)
Media Strategy Considerations
143(1)
Case Example
144(6)
Value - Added Potential for all Formats
150(5)
Centralized Patient Recruitment and the Use of Call Centers
155(22)
Call Center Role in Clinical Research
156(4)
Call Center and the Internet
160(1)
Comparison with Individual Site Recruitment Efforts
161(1)
Predicting Call Volume
162(2)
Developing a Proposal for Call Center Involvement
164(1)
Call Center Costs
165(1)
Call Center Regulations and IRB Reviews
166(11)
Recruiting Patients on the Internet
177(18)
Examples of Effectiveness
178(1)
Increasing Importance of the Internet
179(1)
The Need for Improved Patient Recruitment
180(2)
Internet Recruitment Providers
182(2)
Content Providers
184(1)
Government Registries
184(1)
The Center Watch Clinical Trials Listing Service
185(2)
The metaRegister
187(2)
Content Aggregators
189(1)
The Future
190(5)
The Importance of Market Research in Patient Recruitment
195(18)
What is Market Research?
197(4)
Applying Principles of Market Research to Patient Recruitment
201(2)
Additional Forms of Market Research for Patient Recruitment
203(3)
The Current State of Market Research for Patient Recruitment
206(4)
Will Market Research Eventually Play an Active Role?
210(3)
The Importance of Retention and Patient Satisfaction in Clinical Trials
213(26)
Recruiting and Retaining Minorities
221(7)
A Look at Patient Satisfaction
228(5)
Retention and Patient Satisfaction-A Final Thought
233(6)
The Investigator Site Perspective: Patient Recruitment Considerations and Issues Facing Site Personnel
239(16)
Recruitment and the Research Team
240(1)
Budgeting for and Tracking Enrollment
241(2)
Internal versus External Advertising Methods
243(5)
Additional Challenges
248(7)
A Practical Approach to the Development of Community Resources to Fulfill Recruitment Goals and Commitments
255(14)
I Live in Littleville/Largeville-How Do I Get Involved?
256(2)
Profit from Non-profit
258(1)
The Media, A Double - Edged Sword
258(1)
Radio-Man's Constant Companion
259(1)
Television-The Unforgiving Medium
259(2)
Health Fairs
261(1)
An Informed Public
262(2)
The Written Word
264(2)
Institutional Review Boards
266(3)
Women and Minorities: Eliminating Barriers for Clinical Trial Participation
269(12)
Why Inclusion?
270(1)
Patient Perceptions
271(1)
Access to Resources and Services
272(1)
Communication and Outreach Education Programs
273(1)
Other Issues
274(1)
The Internet
275(1)
Evaluation
275(6)
Issues in the Recruitment of Pediatric Subjects: New Challenges and Possibilities
281(14)
Overlooked and Under Studied
282(1)
The FDAMA Kick-Start
283(1)
A Look at the Children
284(2)
Recruiting Children and Their Parents
286(3)
Sites at the Ready
289(1)
Lessons Learned
290(2)
Pediatric Clinical Trials at a Crossroads
292(3)
Multinational Guides and Obstacles to Patient Recruitment
295(22)
The Evolution of Patient Recruitment Practices
296(3)
A Look at the United States
299(3)
Change is Afoot in the United Kingdom
302(4)
Recruiting French Style
306(2)
Australia-A Look Down Under
308(3)
Netherlands
311(2)
Mexico Emerges
313(1)
Variability is Here to Stay
314(3)
A Patient Recruitment Campaign from Contracting to Completion: A Case Study in Osteoarthritis of the Knee
317(20)
Case Synopsis
318(10)
Evaluate Sponsor and Trial Needs
318(2)
Market Research
320(3)
Developing a Proposal
323(2)
Negotiating and Securing a Separate Patient Recruitment Contract and Budget
325(2)
Implementing a Patient Recruitment Campaign
327(1)
Media Strategies
328(6)
Conducting Site Management Services
333(1)
Case Outcomes
334(3)
Patient Recruitment Campaign From Contracting to Completion: A Therapeutic-Specific Case Study
337(1)
Marketing Approved Drugs
337(1)
The Old Patient Recruitment Formula-Why It is Failing
338(1)
The New Recruitment Formula-Taking a Cue from Current Pharma Marketing Strategies
338(1)
The Case Study
339(1)
Planning to Succeed
340(1)
The Contract
341(1)
Program Elements
342(4)
The Outcome
346(1)
Challenges as We Went Along
347(1)
Lessons Learned
347

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