RAV Research has well-established fact that many clinical trials fail to meet their recruitment timelines. Delays in recruitment increase overall costs as the overall drug development timelines are pushed out with a negative impact on the product launch to market.

At RAV Research our approach to ensuring accelerated patient recruitment and enhanced patient retention is multi-dimensional. The focus on patient recruitment and retention starts with the selection of the most appropriate sites where our structured feasibility indicates the best chance of recruiting the required patient population within the shortest time period. In consultation with our sites and clients we utilize well defined processes and tools to accelerate patient recruitment e.g. recruitment projection calculator, site specific recruitment plans, patient outreach approaches, definition of patient flow and logistics etc.

Once the effort has been put into recruiting patients, it is all the more important that patients are then retained and compliant, resulting in complete and high quality data sets. RAV Research has successfully implemented well-defined processes to enhance patient retention into studies: 

• Customized retention programs
• Proactive management of potential drop-out reasons
• Identification of barriers that impact return of patients to site for follow-up visits and providing feasible solutions
• Effective implementation of various retention measures and tools
• Dedicated resources to ensure close follow-up with patients/caregivers
• Prompt travel reimbursement