Developing a model to predict accrual to cancer clinical trials: Data from an NCI designated cancer center.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As cancer center funds are allocated toward several resources, clinical trial offices and the clinical trial infrastructure is constantly scrutinized. It has been shown that 20% of clinical trials fail to achieve their accrual goal and in an institutional level several trials are open with poor accrual. We sought to identify factors that are associated with clinical trial accrual and develop a model to predict clinical trial accrual.

Methods and material

We identified all clinical trials from 1999 to 2015 at UT Health Cancer Center San Antonio. We included observational as well as interventional clinical trials. We collected several variables such as type of study, type of malignancy, trial phase, PI of study.

Results

In total we included 297 clinical tri

SUBMITTER: Iruku P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658414 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature