Pre-Trial Services
Inefficient patient recruitment processes are increasingly a formidable barrier to pharmaceutical companies’ success in launching new products. With the fragmented nature of healthcare systems, eligible and willing patients are simply not being reached with the message that clinical research opportunities are available to them.
Breaking down knowledge and access barriers empowers patients to self-refer to clinical trials. This lies at the core of our approach. Delivering consistency and supporting all aspects of patient recruitment, we offer a broad range of initiatives to complement and catalyse existing strategies, delivering motivated patients to the sites of your choice.
“Our expertise is founded on many thousands of conversations with volunteers.”
One Research offers a full range of marketing outreach to recruit volunteers for all phases of clinical research
Our multi-media marketing suite has been developed empirically to engage a diversity of patients, or specific target groups. One Research will implement a strategy which offers volunteers a clear pathway to research. We can design campaigns for specific trials or localities, or manage broader initiatives to support disease-specific cohorts of patients and portfolios of trials.
Our expertise is founded on many thousands of conversations with volunteers. We will deploy the most effective and appropriate media for your target audience. When patients are introduced to research opportunities through our marketing, we make sure that their first point of contact is positive and supportive. This builds trust which impacts strongly on enrolment and retention rates.
“Patient advocacy groups can be a powerful ally in the search for volunteers.”
Building relationships with advocacy groups is an integral part of patient-centric clinical research recruitment.
Patient advocacy groups can be a powerful ally in the search for volunteers. Working closely with appropriate organisations, One Research promotes the value of your studies and establishes trust with patients. Effective marketing doesn’t just flag opportunities to volunteers, it provides the foundation for the relationship moving forward.
Social media and digital marketing can be integrated with more traditional communication to engage advocacy groups. These organisations take an active interest in highlighting the importance of research. They are ideal partners in developing long-term recruitment strategies such as disease-specific cohorts, or equally valuable supporting quick-response recruitment for individual studies.
“One Research will help you prevent costly delays and start your trials on time.”
Building relationships with advocacy groups is an integral part of patient-centric clinical research recruitment.
One Research will help you prevent costly delays and start your trials on time by building a cohort of patients to support multiple clinical trials. Instead of starting recruitment when the protocol is approved, a cohort provides a pool of screened and committed volunteers available from the earliest stages of trial planning. From feasibility through to post-market outcome studies, a cohort underpins every stage of your research.
A continuous dialogue with volunteers lies at the heart of the cohort approach. One Research speaks to each volunteer individually as part of the initial eligibility screening. We manage the ongoing relationship with update calls, study-match confirmation, first office visits, and patient reported outcomes.
This dialogue lies at the heart of patient-centricity. It dramatically reduces attrition by keeping volunteers informed and engaged. Similarly, feedback can be passed to sites, CROs and sponsors in real time. Healthcare professionals are freed-up to focus on their clinical duties because One Research becomes the communication hub for all stakeholders.
The cohort gives sponsors or CROs significant leverage when negotiating for the services of potential research sites because the provision of a large pool of screened patients makes the recruitment of volunteers considerably easier for site staff. This has proved an important differentiator when particular sites or investigators are in demand from competing entities.
“A cohort database will allow rapid analysis of patient records according to geographical, medical, and demographic criteria.”
One Research can design, build and manage a database specific to your patient recruitment requirements – a resource for patients, sites, CROs and sponsors.
When a pool of patients is recruited for clinical research, their data must be kept secure, up-to-date and accessible to appropriate stakeholders. One Research can construct and manage a bespoke database designed specifically for the efficient running of clinical research recruitment programmes. The database allows patient records to be kept current with options for email, SMS, and phone contact. It serves as a communication hub centralising key information.
In conducting feasibility studies, a cohort database will allow rapid analysis of patient records according to geographical, medical, and demographic criteria. Your choice of search functions can be included in the system, allowing you to identify sub-groups and trends as needed. As patients progress through your research programme, linear data is captured. You have a valuable information resource for PROs and post-market follow-up. Ongoing hosting and management of the database is included in the package.