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    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.

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