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INFODIR 2014; 10 (19)

The clinical trial from the patient's perspective

Alonso CL, García MAJ, Marrero MMA, López PP, Álvarez CA

Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 66-72
PDF size: 236.44 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The recruitment of an adequate number of participants is essential to successfully complete a clinical trial. In this paper we will be reflecting on this subject that affects the successful execution of clinical trials, but this time taking the patient as its starting point. From this reflection managers can understand the decisive role of patients in the development of EC, hence the importance of the design and implementation of strategies to positively influence this aspect ( patients included) for implementing the EC, which is estimated to consume one third of the total time of that investigation. For this reason, managers should be actively involved in this activity since in all processes hospital management and other institutions involved can considerably influence the improvement of various stages of clinical trial. A greater involvement of patients in the EC may constitute a potential reserve of improvement to increase recruitment of patients with subsequent translation of results into practice. Similarly, integrated management at each sanitary institution involved in EC, correct information for promoters and speeding up of internal processes could become a reality all stages of the EC, and this could help to change the perception of efficiency in our country in this respect.


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