Chapter 2
Assessing Opportunities and Challenges
Objectives
+ + Highlight the role of clinical trial sites for increasing study feasibility and patient acceptability + + Explain how to define and prioritize site characteristics to enhance study implementation + + Provide methods to evaluate sites based on those criteria + + Share examples of Parkinson ' s disease trials that evaluated potential study sites for opportunities and challenges and incorporated this information into the site selection process
The clinical trial site is the source of crucial touchpoints in the participant journey with clinical research . To be truly patient-centric is to support sites so they can provide participants with a successful and rewarding research experience . This can be accomplished by involving sites early in the study design process ( e . g ., as stakeholders in a study working group ), obtaining their insights on potential challenges and opportunities that may affect study feasibility .
8 Accelerating Clinical Trials : Best Practices for Recruitment and Retention