Accelerating Patient Recruitment: Connecting the Right Patients to the Right Trial

Clinical trials have become increasingly complex over the past decades, making participant recruitment more challenging than ever. This guide explores common recruitment obstacles and offers strategies to overcome them using a patient engagement and recruitment solution.

According to a 2024 study “Benchmarking Site Activation and Patient Enrollment,” 33% of sites under-enrolled, and 14% failed to enroll a single patient. The best way to course-correct this is to adopt a multifaceted approach to patient recruitment, that goes beyond traditional channels and ways of thinking.

Chiesi partnered with Citeline to enhance clinical trial awareness and patient engagement through its FREUD initiative by launching a Trial Portfolio Website, activating 150+ sites, and generating 600+ qualified referrals—learn more about how Citeline helped improve study discoverability, streamline recruitment, and strengthen Chiesi’s presence in key therapeutic areas.

Watch Citeline’s 15-minute presentation from Clinical Leader’s Patient Engagement & Recruitment Solutions Expo, where VP Matt Holms explores Direct-to-Data (DTD) patient recruitment. This session takes a deep dive into how complex algorithms, tokenized data, and large data assets can optimize enrollment, highlighting the importance of early strategic recruitment planning and breaking down the unique benefits and real-world applications of DTD.