It is a well-established fact that many clinical trials fail to meet the deadline for their recruitment. Any cause of delays in recruitment increase overall costs which results in the overall drug development timelines are pushed out with a negative impact on the product launch to market.

At KCR our approach to ensuring accelerated patient recruitment and enhanced patient retention is multi-dimensional. Our main focus is on patient recruitment and retention that starts with the selection of the most appropriate sites where our structured feasibility indicates the best chance of recruiting the required population of patients within the shortest time period. In consultation with our sites and customers, we use the well-defined processes and tools to speed up patient recruitment, for example, recruitment projection calculator, site-specific recruitment plans, patient outreach approaches, the definition of patient flow and logistics, etc.

Once the effort has been put into recruiting patients, it is all the more important that patients are then maintained and compliant, resulting in complete and high-quality data sets. KCR has successfully implemented well-defined processes to enhance patient retention into studies:

• Customized retention programs
• Proactive management of potential drop-out reasons
• Identification of barriers that impact the return of patients to site for follow-up visits and providing feasible solutions
• Effective implementation of various retention measures and tools
• Dedicated resources to ensure close follow-up with patients or caregivers
• Prompt travel reimbursement

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