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With technology advancing at a rapid pace, clinical trial sponsors and sites have been forced to rethink the avenues they use to optimize clinical trials. This has become especially apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic — for clinical trials to stay on track, they have to adopt new ways of conducting research while maintaining data integrity and patient safety. At the same time, patient ...

By some estimations, 80% of clinical trials are delayed or closed because researchers can’t find enough patients to take part in their clinical trials. This, of course, means that trial sponsors are losing money and sites are wasting time screening ineligible patients. But, it also means that countless patients continue to wait for new and potentially better treatment options.

As of September 2020, there have been over 30 million COVID-19 cases worldwide, with nearly 7 million cases in the United States alone. The impact of this global pandemic is widespread, ranging from how we conduct ourselves in public to the ways in which we seek healthcare.

Maneuvering clinical trial listings can be a daunting task for any patient. In fact, searching for trials has become more and more difficult over the years, largely due to increasingly stringent eligibility requirements. That’s why we created Antidote Match, the first trial matching engine that uses structured data and proprietary algorithms to explore a patient’s eligibility for every trial.

Clinical trial patient recruitment can take a long time, and 80% of clinical trials today are delayed or closed due to difficulty finding patients to take part. If you have the right recruitment strategies in place for your clinical trial, then enrolling patients doesn’t have to slow your research down.

Clinical trial sites are increasingly looking to digital media for patient recruitment, but many still aren’t getting the results they’re looking for. We spoke with our Digital Marketing Manager, David Tindell, to hear his tips on running a successful clinical trial recruitment campaign that connects sponsors with eligible and interested patients.

It’s no easy task to get a new clinical trial up and running, and keeping it moving smoothly takes a carefully constructed project management plan. Planning for the best also means preparing for the worst: anticipating the challenges that come with executing a trial is critical to its success.

It’s no secret that clinical trial recruitment can be challenging. From initial engagement with the right patients, to tracking recruitment at the site level, to juggling vendors, it’s no wonder patient recruitment takes an estimated 30% of the trial process.

Are you spending time and money on clinical trial advertising that’s not delivering? It can be frustrating to put resources into spreading the word about your study, only to find that the patients who make it to your sites are not right for your trial. According to a survey Antidote conducted of 4,000+ patients, 52% of patients found out about clinical trial opportunities through an ...

Getting a clinical trial started is often a collaborative effort between a number of different teams, from sponsors to sites to patient recruitment organizations. When it comes to clinical trial recruitment companies, what exactly does study start up look like? We spoke with Antidote’s Senior Manager of Strategic Client Services, Amrita Bhatt, about what it takes to kick off a new clinical trial ...