Reinventing Patient Recruitment : Revolutionary Ideas for Clinical Trial Success (Hardcover)

Contents: Foreword. Part One Getting Started: Putting the patient first; Planning your study: Think communication; Applied metrics: Projecting enrollments; Picking good sites; Budgeting and contracting for patient recruitment. Part Two Development and Implementation: The importance of patient protections; Targeting the right patients; Site enrollment support; Metrics for evaluation and redeployment; Patient retention. Part Three Going Global: The changing landscape of multinational clinical studies; Approaching ethics committees: Perspective and opportunity; Selecting countries, sites and tactics that work. Part Four Future Trends: Personalized medicine and biotechnology; Public perception and industry leadership. Appendices: Good Recruitment Practice: The Patients to Find the Cure; Clinical Research Coordinator Survey 2003; The Will and Why Survey 2001; The International Will and Why Survey 2004; Ethics Committee Survey 2005. Glossary; Index.