Fresh solutions for clinical trial recruitment

Recruitment delays top the list of the most common impediments to trial success. i3 responds with a fresh approach, one better suited to managing the cost and time to bring new drugs to market. In addition to traditional recruitment approaches, we apply better intelligence from our feasibility analysis service, which allows us to search large databases for information about patients with specific diagnoses and other characteristics.

Go directly to the best candidate pools

Using our high speed data mining capabilities, we use your parameters to tabulate relevant clinical epidemiologic data and identify geographic areas having high (or low) concentrations of patients with the specific diagnoses and other attributes relevant to your trial. In this process, we observe strict ethical, legal, and regulatory parameters:

  • Individual patients are not contacted directly about the trial
  • Sites do not receive information about specific potential patients

Pre-recruitment best practices

Once we identify promising sites and recruit investigators, i3’s experienced CRAs and proven recruitment programs can go to work. It is during initiation that sites are most motivated to succeed—so we focus their energies on patient recruitment from the very start. We provide:

  • Recruitment strategies and materials to help sites quickly begin successful recruitment
  • Recommendations on advertising and promotional strategies

Patient recruitment

Throughout the enrollment period, our CRAs engage test sites in many ways, including:

  • Consultation with the physician able to deliver the most effective message at the point of care
  • Regular contact and positive reinforcement with all site participants
  • Training and support based on past successes
  • Troubleshooting assistance as needed

Patient compliance and retention

In our experience, the best way to support compliance and retention is through regular, informative contact by the study coordinator with the patients. Therefore, we equip coordinators with:

  • Dynamic patient educational materials
  • Motivational tips
  • Appreciation items related to the disease for use by the study sites

i3 takes you directly to the best candidate pools.

A better way to manage trial costs and timelines  

i3 brings fresh solutions to help your trial costs and timeline management—the application of better data resources and long experience. We understand what’s at stake, and that bringing your new drugs to market depends on well-run trials.