Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment

PPD's clients can attract and retain qualified patients for their clinical studies with PPD's comprehensive patient recruitment, retention and telecommunications center services. Our global reach and knowledge of regulations and customs worldwide expedite the process of clinical trial patient recruitment.

PPD understands the challenges and importance of a successful patient recruitment program and offers a full suite of clinical trial patient recruitment services. Fully integrated with PPD clinical operations, our in-house, dedicated patient recruitment managers have extensive therapeutic and recruitment experience enabling study personnel to stay focused on patient care, not recruitment and retention.

View examples of our marketing successes in our patient recruitment online demonstration.

Targeted Strategies, Maximum Effectiveness

We research a client's target patient population and create a custom recruitment and retention program designed to overcome enrollment challenges. We also design and implement media strategies that meet enrollment targets in the most cost-effective manner. Our services are tailored to programs of all sizes and customized to the client's needs.

Global Patient Recruitment

In PPD offices worldwide, we employ people who fully understand the regulations and customs of the countries in which we operate. This allows us to develop and quickly implement the appropriate patient recruitment strategies, including advertising development and placement tailored for local audiences. Through our relationships with investigators and study personnel, we provide efficient patient recruitment while remaining sensitive to local customs throughout the world.

Clinical Trial Patient Retention

Our clients can protect their recruitment investment by taking advantage of PPD's wide scope of programs for patient retention. Our varied patient retention services are designed to motivate patients and maintain high study compliance.

PPD retention programs often include:

• Appropriate patient appreciation incentives at specific intervals to reiterate study importance and recognition of participation
• Follow-up by our telecommunications center to ensure study compliance and answer patient inquiries
• Visit reminder cards to alert patients of their upcoming study visits
• Communications such as newsletters and disease-relevant education materials to keep patients informed of the most current data available for their indication
• Luncheons and dinner meetings for support groups and community outreach gatherings

Clinical Site Support

Our dedicated patient recruitment managers provide site support services and technologies that allow our clients' clinical teams to focus on study goals. During the active enrollment period, we deliver additional guidance and assistance, supporting sites by:

• Maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of all studies and study-related materials
• Assisting sites with recruitment-specific activities
• Answering study-related questions from sites
• Initiating or coordinating necessary follow-up

Therapeutic Experience

Our clinical trial patient recruitment experience covers a wide range of therapeutic categories, including:

• Cardiovascular
• Respiratory
• Central nervous system
• Gastrointestinal
• Infectious diseases 
• Metabolic
• Dermatology
• Women's health
• Pediatrics
• Immunology
• Oncology