To be discussed: Workshops, practical examples and real life case studies on the topics

• Importance of patient recruitment and retention in clinical trial management
• Process of trial recruitment and its three steps
• Use of social media in patient recruitment is an interactive process which gives you the opportunity to adjust
• Social media as an effective recruitment tool
• Virtual clinical trials increase the diversity of globally based patients
• Do virtual patients enable pharmaceutical companies to conduct more focused clinical trials?
• Will personalized medicine help to recruit relevant patients and reduce the problem of retention?
• Bringing costs down, acceleration of the clinical trials and other advantages of the personalized medicine
• Patient retention: main challenge in clinical studies
• Why do patients loose motivation for clinical studies?
• Methods and tools optimizing activities and processes
• Does feasibility study help to meet the patient recruitment targets?
• How to measure the feasibility of a protocol and plan accordingly to achieve timely and cost-effective enrollment?
• Could data replace physician / patient interaction one day or is it going to be helpful at least?
• Are Electronic Medical records (EMR) going to be a magic wand for patient recruitment?
• How to increase productivity and decrease trial costs by using clinical portals?

You are the right person to investigate and integrate all the innovative patient recruitment strategies in your company! 

Pre-Conference Workshops One (15:00 – 16:00)

• Clinical research in emerging markets may raise legal and ethical questions
• Oncology – Follow up for survival data
• Subject Recruitment: Then and Now
• Social Media in Clinical Trials: Increasing Patient Recruitment
• How does the new technology help to forecast the result of the clinical trial?
• How to increase patient retention and prevent no-shows?

Pre-Conference Workshops Two (16:00 – 17:00)

• Enrollment feasibility: understanding patient populations and motivation
• What other solutions for patient recruitment may future bring?
• Current challenges in patient enrollment – how to improve it?
• How to accelerate the clinical trials recruitment by using of social media?
• How to improve the quality of program and protocol?
• Are actual protection regulations updated to current ethical issues?

Don’t miss out on the additional learning opportunities! Take part in our pre-conference workshops where you will discover the challenges of patient recruitment in current environment, what impact have social media on patient enrollment and how to improve the patient recruitment strategies..