Articles / Whitepapers
Patient-Centric Trial Recruitment
The competition for qualified clinical study participants is at an all-time high, compelling sponsors, CROs, sites, and patient recruitment companies to employ increasingly more sophisticated strategies, tactics, and models that stress the patients’ role in the process… Patient-Centric Trial Recruitment Read More »
Dynamic Site Network Models
The Search for Patient Enrollment Certainty: The unfailing ability to complete enrollment on time, every time, has been the greatest yet most elusive need among clinical trial managers. Not that long ago, enrolling patients into clinical trials was much easier. The reality is that where patients come from is changing. Now, a new approach to patient... Read More »
Global Positioning
What defines a truly global patient recruitment organization? Global recruitment for clinical trials is far from a “one-size-fits-all” proposition. Enormous language, cultural, political, and socioeconomic differences exist in many of the countries that are becoming primary outsourcing locations for clinical research. Regional variations and cultural understanding of clinical research need to be taken into account when... Read More »
News
How to Avoid the Five Patient Enrollment Mistakes That Delay Clinical Trials
Ever wonder why 80% of clinical trials are delayed? The top reason is unfulfilled enrollment, and there are specific reasons why this happens with so many trials. This webinar will reveal five patient enrollment errors that stall enrollment timelines in trial after trial. More importantly, it will provide useful advice, based on proven methods, for... Read More »
Site Enrollment Optimization
Bolstering Clinical Trial Enrollment with Site Support Services – It’s All about Relationships On an ongoing basis, the Patient Recruitment Organization (PRO) should provide sites with people, processes, and technology to support the enrollment and retention goals of the trial. We call this Site Enrollment Optimization, or SEO. Acurian On: Site Enrollment Optimization Read More »
Alzheimer’s: A Path Toward A Cure
Every major health epidemic has seemed daunting and insurmountable, until a single momentous discovery – or more often, a critical mass of accumulated knowledge – tips the balance toward a decisive treatment or cure. Vaccines that took a hundred years to conceive are now viewed as a matter of routine care. Cancers that claimed every... Read More »
Press Releases
Acurian and Synexus Launch NASH Patient Enrollment Solution
New offering introduced at second annual NASH Summit Boston, Mass., April 23, 2018 – Acurian Inc., a leading full-service provider of global patient enrollment and retention solutions, and Synexus, the leading global network of dedicated research sites, have launched a comprehensive solution for enrolling patients in clinical studies for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its... Read More »
PPD and Acurian Introduce Innovative Patient Concierge Service for Clinical Trials
Provides personalized support for patients and enhances retention for clients WILMINGTON, N.C. (February 28, 2018) – Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD), a global contract research organization, and Acurian, the leading full-service provider of global patient enrollment and retention solutions and a subsidiary of PPD, today announced a new patient concierge service designed to make it easier... Read More »
SCRS Hosts an SCRS Ambassador Symposium in Hungary Sponsored by Acurian
Ellicott City, MD – On January 23, 2018, the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) hosted an SCRS Symposium for clinical research sites in Budapest, Hungary, in connection with its Ambassador Program. Through a two-year scholarship supported by Acurian, the country sponsor, this symposium brought SCRS member benefits of advocacy, education, mentorship and connection to clinical... Read More »