Using Registries to Recruit Subjects for Clinical Trials
A study published in Contemporary Clinical Trials studied the use of patient/disease registries to recruit potential subjects for prospective clinical trials - describing the number, types and major benefits of using this approach. After conducting a focused database search in PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science for studies that used registries to recruit subjects for clinical trials published between the years 2004-2014, the authors found that registries are used very often to “identify very large number of subjects for screening for eligibility for clinical trials, especially in very large trials, rare disease trials, and trials involving minority patients”. The authors believe that with the help of registries potential subjects can be efficiently screened for eligibility and enrollment in prospective clinical trials, which can be a timely recruitment strategy. Read the PubMed abstract
