All Posts Tagged With: "patient retention"
Recruiting and Retaining Clinical Trial Patients
Recruiting and Retaining Clinical Trial Patients
By Dave Betz, Dana Betz and Diane Leahy – OmniTrace Corp.
What is a major area of concern and associated consequences in clinical trial conduct?
Clinical trial failure is a major concern, as 80% of failures are caused by the inability of research sites to find and enroll sufficient patients and meet [...]
Electronic Medical Records Utility in Clinical Trial Conduct
Electronic Medical Records Utility in Clinical Trial Conduct
Patient dropouts and those lost to follow-up (LTFU) pose a major challenge and costly burden in the conduct of clinical trials as each patient represents a valuable source of data. High patient dropout rates are not only costly but pose a risk to the interpretation and validity of [...]
Clinical Trial Conduct: Burden of Patient Dropouts and Patients Lost To Follow-Up
Patient Dropouts / Lost To Follow-Up Implications
In any clinical trial, issues of patient retention, patient dropouts and patients lost to follow-up ( LTFU ) poses a major challenge. Each patient represents a significant amount of time, effort and other resources, so that a high rate of patient dropouts are not only costly but pose a risk to the interpretation and [...]
Addressing Clinical Trial Recruitment and Patient Retention Issues Imposed by HIPAA Step by Step (third of a series)
Patient Retention
Recent reports have indicated that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that went into effect in 2003 has adversely affected clinical trial conduct and patient retention by imposing significant time and cost burden and by impeding clinical trial recruiting and patient retention,1 which in turn has deterred patient search efforts–locating patients lost-to-follow-up. [...]
FDA Patient Safety News- Preventing Medical Errors: Medical Errors from Misreading Letters and Numbers March 1, 2010
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