Patient Recruitment Impacts Clinical Trial Timelines

We work exclusively to solve patient recruitment and retention challenges.
When your clinical trial is delayed by slow subject enrollment, you need to quickly identify the issues impacting patient recruitment to find the best solutions. Here at Healthcare Communications Group, we are dedicated to providing you with excellence in patient recruitment strategies and services to improve outcomes - regardless of the clinical trial obstacles you face. Our patient recruitment philosophy is that every study, like every subject, is unique.

Subject enrollment.
How can we help you solve your clinical trial challenges? The day-to-day business of clinical trial management may revolve around screen fails, consents and randomizations. It may focus on protocol criteria, competitive trials, and all of the things that impact site motivation and Investigator capabilities. But ultimately, it’s about subjects. And there, you will find the answers.

Real people.
Our focus is on the trial participants who may be willing to make small sacrifices in return for the greater good of people. At HCG, we never lose sight of the fact that these are the people whom your patient recruitment efforts must touch and motivate. Our years of experience in developing innovative programs produces outcomes that have helped pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies bring new treatments to market. Yet, we never forget that every subject is important and that no gesture is too small to make a difference.

A unique consultative process.
HCG’s feasibility and analysis processes help get to the bottom of patient recruitment challenges. We comprehensively identify and research all factors that might contribute to an enrollment shortfall so that we can establish an individualized path toward resolution. Protocol challenges, competitive trials, scientific interest, regulatory and IRB issues, disease state dynamics, psychographic factors, and patient perceptions, as well as the effectiveness of your prior recruitment initiatives, can all have an impact on enrollment forecasts. Utilizing our database of prior trial media performance, HCG places special attention on Investigator site selection and on building Coordinator relationships: This is truly the heart of the subject enrollment solution.

Every Subject Counts

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HCG in the News
GLOBAL HEADLINES ABOUT PATIENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

HCG provides insight to industry publications and writers and staff are frequent guest speakers at industry conferences, seminars and events. HCG President, Frank Kilpatrick also lectured on the topic of patient recruitment at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Spring 2008.
Los Angeles Business Journal:
Having Patients Pays Off
,
Authored by Deborah Crowe
R&D Directions Magazine: Patient Recruitment, Authored by Michael D. Christel
Scrip Magazine: Trial Recruitment Reassessed, Authored by Frank S. Kilpatrick, Jeanne Floyd, and Suzanne I. Steinberg

Scrip Magazine: RFP: A Matter of Patients Optimizing the Patient Recruitment RFP Process, Authored by Frank S. Kilpatrick
Scrip Magazine: Northern Exposure,
Authored by Pete Chan
Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine:
Rev Up Patient Recruitment,
Authored by Frank S. Kilpatrick
 
HCG MAKING NEWS… HCG CONTINUES ITS GLOBAL GROWTH
HCG continues to make news as the premier clinical trial patient recruitment firm.

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