Patient Recruitment and Study Design
Factors that may affect patient recruitment and retention should be considered during study design. This includes eligibility/ineligibility criteria, procedural burden, endpoints, number of study visits and trial duration.
Learn more about Retention and Recruitment.
Resources
- Cancer Clinical Trials – Resource Guide for Outreach, Education, and Advocacy (NCI)
- Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) – Recruitment
- NCI AccrualNet – Protocol Accrual Lifecycle
- NIH – Points to Consider about Recruitment and Retention While Preparing a Clinical Research Study
- Trial Innovation Network (TIN) – Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
Patient Cohort Identification
The Mount Sinai Data Warehouse (MSDW), Mount Sinai Imaging Research Warehouse (MS-IRW), and Epic (electronic health record system) collect clinical, operational, and financial data from various sources that can be used to support:
- Study feasibility
- Study design
- Patient cohort identification
- Recruitment
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