Patient Engagement Archives

How to Overcome the Problem of the Early ePRO Oversell

November 8, 2022

With increasing regulatory requirements for the inclusion of patient-reported outcomes in study data, maintaining the status quo in PRO collection can have costly consequences.

Notes from the Field: How eConsent Improves Clinical Trials

September 28, 2022

Employing eConsent benefits participants, sites, sponsors and CROs. In this article, a Medrio Subject Matter Expert explains how this technology creates important advantages for all clinical trial stakeholders.

Why CTMS Is Critical As Trial Complexities Increase

November 9, 2021

The clinical trials industry is buckling under the weight of continuously growing complexities. Developing an interconnected clinical trials ecosystem will be essential to minimizing the ripple effects of complexity impacting your sites and patients. As…

How to Sustain Clinical Trial Patient Engagement

September 7, 2021

The process of bringing a new treatment to market can be a long, arduous journey. On average, it takes ten years for a treatment to travel all the way from clinical trials to market approval.1…

The Power of Patient-Centricity in Rare Disease Studies

September 6, 2021

Orphan drug discoveries promise unprecedented opportunities, as well as challenges. Unfortunately, research in the rare disease space presents some of the highest hurdles in medicine due to the nature of their small, complex patient populations.…

Can Your eClinical Empower Patients and Inform Stakeholders?

August 5, 2021

“People are experts in everyday living. Physicians are experts in clinical care. Technologies bring them together.” – Patricia Brennan, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, FACMI[1] As clinical research continues to struggle with recruitment and retention, it makes…

Patient Engagement Strategies for Meaningful Outcomes

July 23, 2021

The narrative around patient engagement in clinical trials has remained largely unchanged in the last few decades. An alarming number of studies fail to meet their recruitment goals or experience underpowered outcomes due to heavy…

How to Enhance Your Patient Engagement Efforts Through Technology

July 6, 2021

Keeping patients enrolled and active in clinical research is one of the biggest obstacles to study success. But increased protocol complexity and rising costs make it hard to balance patient engagement efforts without stifling the…

4 Reasons Decentralized Trials Are Here to Stay

July 6, 2021

Long before the global pandemic, clinical trial sponsors were consumed with accelerating their studies and improving the trial experience for key stakeholders. Decentralization emerged as a leading factor in this pursuit. As COVID-19 inundated healthcare…

5 Ways ePRO Boosts Patient Engagement

June 22, 2021

Collecting patient data is a necessary and critical step in clinical research. When done well, it can be fundamental in determining the safety and efficacy of an intervention. But finding ways to keep patients engaged…

How to Strengthen Trial Retention Through Patient Education

April 30, 2021

According to a 2019 CISCRP study, 85% of the general public are willing to participate in clinical trial research. Yet, recruitment continues to plague the industry as one of the most costly and timely…

Hesitant to Embrace Decentralized Trials Because of Regulations?

February 12, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic first entered the states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quickly recognized that the public health emergency would disrupt the conduct of clinical trials for medical products. New challenges arose…

Design Your Trial for Success: Involve Patient Advocates Early

October 23, 2020

Trial Drop Out Rates Continue to Increase Trial drop-out rates continue to increase and some clinical trials grind to a halt due to low recruitment and retention rates. Could both be avoided by engaging a…

Virtual, Decentralized, Hybrid: What’s the Difference?

August 3, 2020

The clinical trial landscape is ever-changing. New technology and innovation have changed the way we look at clinical trial design. While we can agree that the recent focus on patient-centricity has been a long time…

Is ePRO the Key to Avoiding Trial Delays During COVID-19?

May 27, 2020

At the onset of COVID-19, we began an impact survey to gauge how sponsors and CROs were reacting to the pandemic and how their trials were being affected. Our findings suggest that a number of…

3 Ways Patient-Centricity Can Boost Clinical Trial ROI

October 25, 2019

There’s no question that patient recruitment, adherence, and retention are core concerns for researchers. A recent report cited there are now 40 million patients needed for approximately 300,000 clinical trials around the world. Patient centricity…

Patient Centricity: Greater Value for Participants and Beyond

May 30, 2019

It’s no secret that patient recruitment and retention remain among the most significant hurdles in clinical trials. As research becomes more globalized and sophisticated, many sources now rank patient issues among the top three barriers…

5 Patient Engagement Innovations in Healthcare and Clinical Research

March 23, 2019

Patient engagement isn’t just a buzzword anymore. With the massive transformation that clinical trials have gone through over recent years, it has emerged at the top of the values hierarchy and has begun to play…

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