Competitive enrollment. Shrinking budgets. Compressed timelines. Tougher protocols. Having worked with more than 300 investigative sites, CSS understands the challenges that most sites face today in their pursuit to enroll patients.  With limited resources, reduced budgets and lack of time to effectively plan for patient recruitment, our Site Enhancement Services provide solutions for these challenges by focusing on three core areas:  Trial Identification Services, Educational and Training Services and Customized Recruitment Services.

Educational and Training Services

The successful site has consistent, strong processes and consistently follows GCPs to maximize enrollment. CSS will assist your site with development of sound clinical trial processes and training for study coordinators to increase the enrollment potential at the site.

Customized Recruitment Services

Through our years of experience we have developed a proven methodology and targeted services to support enrollment for clinical trials. This approach and group of services includes an integrated process to maximize recruitment efforts.

• Strategic Recruitment Design ™

  Many sites feel they do not know where to begin in the recruitment process. This service ensures time and money are not lost by first developing an overall strategy, specific to each protocol.

  • Recruitment Research:  Review the protocol, research the therapeutic area, evaluate the demographics and define the target area and outline the best methods to effectively reach the audience.
  • Budget Development:  Develop a realistic budget for reaching your site’s enrollment goals. Based on recruitment metrics, past experiences and research specific to the protocol, this is a turn-key document to submit to a CRO or Sponsor.
  • Recruitment Plan:  Recommend the most effective recruitment plan to reach your enrollment goals. Including implementation of various media tactics, timelines and any additional methods, CSS provides your site with a metrics-based roadmap for recruitment.
  
  

  Targeted Media Solutions ™

  Implementing a strategic recruitment plan requires a balance of selecting the appropriate media vehicles while utilizing solid creative messaging. These services provide all the critical media and advertising materials you need to recruit the right subjects.

  • Media Planning:  Formulate a media strategy to target a specific audience for each clinical study you are conducting. With therapeutic, market and medium-specific metrics, our media recommendation will ensure the greatest enrollment for your site.
  • Media Negotiation and Placement:  Place the media in a specific location or daypart, for the lowest cost possible. Firm negotiation and expert placement make certain your messages will resonate with the right audience.
  • Advertising Development:  Evaluate your current recruitment tools and develop new, IRB-friendly advertisements if deemed necessary. Without a strong creative that gains the attention of your target audience, then motivates them to take action, your recruitment efforts will fall short of its goals. CSS will also submit advertising materials to any IRB on behalf of your site.
  
  

  Clinical Screening Technologies ™

  More time for you, more subjects to enroll. That’s what you’ll gain by pre-screening potential study subjects prior to the study coordinator speaking with them. With 24/7 availability and coverage of 100% of the calls, you will save the coordinator’s hours of time that can best be spent on enrolling subjects.

  • Online Prescreener:  Devise an online study pre-screening tool that asks specific I/E criteria. The following day your coordinator will be provided with a full profile of these pre-screened, interested study subjects.
  • Interactive Telephone Prescreener:  Answer 100% of the calls and gain the luxury of extra time. Customized to your site’s needs with the option of having pre-qualified subjects transferred directly to your office phone.
  
  

  Quantified Recruitment Results ™:

  CSS’s success with sites is measured in the results. Our site-focused services minimize the time spent by the site and maximize the recruitment efforts. These measurements are quantifiable benefits for the site.

  • Time Savings:  Gain time through the combined benefit of these services that save time and allow more opportunity for your site to screen and enroll subjects.
  • Recruitment Metrics:  Quantify your recruitment decisions. Your site will have the confidence to report on the success of the recruitment efforts.
  • Financial Benefits:  Maximizing your recruitment activities will generate more enrolled subjects, thus increasing your site’s revenue stream. CSS formulates efficient recruitment recommendations, in turn minimizing your site’s need to invest in additional recruitment endeavors.