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1O1 on Patient Recruitment for Clinical trials

Conducting clinical trials is a growing trend in the medical industry for testing the

safety level and effectiveness of a newly developed drug or medical device. Patient recruitment is the most time consuming and hectic portion of the clinical trial process. Without the right materials, you cannot generate and maintain your desired number of candidates.

What ArePatient

Recruitment

Materials And How

To Use Them?

No, you will not need any questionable physical equipment – Patient recruitment materials are actually communication

strategies intended to attract patients to participate in clinical trials. What you have to do is advertise - through television, social media, brochures, posters, billboards, letters, flyers and any other way possible.

If you want to attract patients globally then your advertisements should meet that range of

diversity. Suppose you upload a video on YouTube to show the positive impact of your drug on Diabetes, it can be of importance to people in many countries. What you can do is add subtitles and sub-videos to your videos using professional Interpreting Services.

You can post articles and blogs on worldwide social networks like Facebook and Tumblr that can be translated into any language using professional Interpreting and Translation Services. For example, if you are Armenian and your target audience is Indians, you will use Armenian Patient Recruitment Materials Translation service to convert your material to Hindi.

Occasionally, advertisement alone does not do wonders and the extra ingredient needed is connections with influential people. Imagine developing

a medicine for treating brain tumors, but falling short on finding patients suffering from the condition; this is when contacting oncologists can be very helpful. Use your material to convince them that your trials are 100% safe, and they might refer their patients to you.

Paying volunteers for trials is one effective way of attracting patients. However, if the trials are prolonged or even mere

side effects appear, several of them will abandon you half way. For this reason ensure that your recruited patients recognize the importance of your drug or medical device so that they stay by your side till the completion of trials.

Losing your patients before trials end, this will leave you with ineffective results and your product will fail to reach the market. Keep your recruited patients committed by constant reminders and motivation through phone calls, text messages, e-mails and by arranging regular visits to your clinic.

Sometimes your drug or medical device is meant for a specific audience such as the deaf community. Deaf people will be encouraged and respond with more enthusiasm if your patient recruitment materials are represented in sign language. The best way to reach these people is by hiring a professional from their community who can provide Interpreter Services.

Now assume you are an Armenian company that has formulated a medicine to fight Malaria and wish to recruit patients from sub-Saharan Africa where the disease is most prevalent. Africa is a country where multiple languages are spoken, including Somali, Berber, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, Hausa, Igbo, Fulani and Yoruba. Here you will need professional Armenian Patient Recruitment Materials Translation to make any communication possible.