In Search of Site Performance Predictors
Posted by Michael Jay on Wed, Feb 02, 2011
RxTrials welcomes CenterWatch as a guest blogger who wrote the below post:
The following is excerpted from writer Suz Redfearn’s article “In Search of Site Performance Predictors,” which appears in The CenterWatch Monthly, February 2011 issue.
Only 7% of investigative sites in the U.S. deliver on promises made in their initial study feasibility assessment. In any other industry, that would be totally unacceptable. To make matters worse, in any multi-center study, sponsors report regularly that only a small proportion of sites (~20%) over-enroll and 30% meet their enrollment targets. Half of all sites under-enroll or fail to enroll a single patient into a clinical trial. more...