Patient Recruitment
Patient Recruitment (Clinical Trials)
Patient recruitment is the end-to-end process of identifying, contacting, screening, and enrolling participants in a clinical trial, encompassing site-driven outreach, central recruitment campaigns, EHR-based identification, and patient-engagement workflows.
Patient recruitment is the rate-limiting step in 80% of delayed clinical trials. Effective recruitment is therapeutic-area-specific: oncology recruits primarily through site-level chart review; rare disease through patient communities; cardiovascular through EHR cohort identification; CNS through specialist referral.
AI-assisted recruitment shifts the work from broad outreach to precision identification of likely-eligible patients already in care. This compresses time-to-randomized-patient by 40; 60% versus traditional methods, while increasing diversity by expanding identification beyond the site's existing roster.
Related terms
Patient Pre-screening
Patient pre-screening is the process of evaluating individuals against a clinical trial's inclusion and exclusion criteria, before formal screening visits, to identify likely-eligible candidates and reduce screen failure rates.
Screen Failure Rate
The screen failure rate is the percentage of patients who consent to be screened for a clinical trial but are subsequently found ineligible and not randomized.
EHR Integration (for Clinical Trials)
EHR integration in clinical research is the secure, standards-based connection between an electronic health record system and a clinical-trial application that enables eligibility screening, data abstraction, and source-data verification without manual transcription.
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