Moving Beyond the Momentum: Innovative Approaches to Clinical Trial Implementation.

ABSTRACT: Despite efforts to enhance enrollment and the merger of national cooperative groups, < 5% of patients with cancer will enroll into a clinical trial. Additionally, clinical trials are affected by a lack of diversity inclusive of minority patients, rural residents, or low-income individuals. COVID-19 further exacerbated known barriers of reduced physician-patient interaction, physician availability, trial activation and enrollment, financial resources, and capacity for conducting research. Based on the cumulative insight of academic and community clinical researchers, we have created a white paper identifying existing challenges in clinical trial conduct and have provided specific recommendations of sustainable modifications to improve efficiency in the activation and conduct of clinical tri

SUBMITTER: Eng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791825 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature