Article courtesy of CLIC - Center for Leading Innovation & Collaboration
The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) has recently published a new manuscript providing recruitment and retention guidance for researchers as they are designing studies. The RIC consults with CTSA hubs on strategies to increase clinical trial enrollment by developing, testing, and sharing innovations to enhance participant recruitment and retention. After 220 consultations with investigators, the RIC has compiled four primary recommendations for addressing common pitfalls in recruitment and retention- “”.
The , comprised of all CTSA Hubs, Trial Innovation Centers, and the RIC, was established to transform multi-site research by reducing delays in trial start-up, speeding recruitment, and harmonizing processes across the CTSA Hubs, ultimately increasing quality and efficiency. To that end, the network has established resources, toolkits and best practices to assist research teams with study design, study start up, study implementation, study closeout and recruitment and retention. A list of TIN publications is . The provides instructions for research teams who wish to partner with the TIN, a resource toolkit, and an archived set of webinars highlighting topics important for multi-center research studies. For questions, please contact info@trialinnovationnetwork.org.