DIA 2016 Annual Meeting

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-520-L01-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Patient recruitment is a challenging activity, which becomes even more so in rare diseases where populations are small, patients are geographically dispersed, and eligible subjects may not be physically (or economically) capable of traveling to a trial site. Unfortunately, current recruiting methods (e.g., listing on trial and patient organization websites, relying on key opinion leaders and trial investigators, billboards) may be limited in reach, overly reliant on busy physicians, and too costly or cost-ineffective. It behooves clinical trialists in rare diseases to consider mechanisms beyond these standard approaches. The aim of this session is to catalyze unconventional thinking and to provide a framework to organize innovative recruitment ideas.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the challenges of patient recruitment in rare diseases; Compare conventional and out-of-the-box ideas for patient recruitment; Illustrate a framework for organizing innovative recruitment ideas.

Chair

Badri Rengarajan, MD

Speaker

Leveraging Claims Data for Targeted Recruitment
Donny Chen, MBA

Direct-to-Patient Digital Recruitment: A Targeted Approach to Recruitment Enrollment and Retention Problems
Bethany Bray

Bringing Clinical Trials to Patients: Leveraging Convergent Data Sources to Accelerate Recruitment
Scott Douglas Schliebner, MPH