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

June 19, 2007
Drug Information Association (DIA) Feet on the Street: Using Community Outreach to Recruit Study Subjects, Presentation by Sandra Chase, HCG and Timothy Neithercoff, NYU School of Medicine.
April 26, 2007
WICC 600 AM - Bridgeport, CT
HCG President, Frank S. Kilpatrick, will appear on a daily radio show, The Exchange with David Smith, which can be found on the AM dial in Connecticut, Southern New York and Northeast New Jersey. Tune in at 2:30 p.m. EDT and listen to Frank and David discuss how shortages in research volunteers affect treatment and new drug development. Go to www.wicc600.com and stream the show live.
April 22, 2007
Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Global Conference & Exhibition
Feet on the Street: Using Community Outreach to Recruit Study Subjects, Presentation by Sandra Chase, HCG and Timothy Neithercoff, NYU School of Medicine.
April 22, 2007
Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Global Conference & Exhibition
Yes You Can: Managing Recruitment Advertising Like a Pro, Presentation by Morgan L. Seaman, HCG and C. Dale Eubank, M.D. FACOG
April 7, 2007
WHK1420 AM
HCG President, Frank S. Kilpatrick, joins bestselling author Dr. Michael Roizen on his weekly radio show, “You, The Owner’s Manual” at 5 p.m. EDT, discussing how shortages in research volunteers affect treatment and new drug development. Go to http://www.healthradio.net and stream the show live or retrieve the archived version.
January 2007
Envisage Magazine
Heidi Moore; On Target. Author Heidi Moore converses with HCG President Frank S. Kilpatrick about how recruitment strategies can improve clinical trial results.

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