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Social Media for Clinical Trial Professionals: Beyond the Barriers

updated May 14, 2013by
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Welcome to viewers of the April 2, 2013 Applied Clinical Trials webcast, titled “The Why and How of Social Media for Clinical Trial Professionals.” This blog post is a companion to my portion of the webinar, which was “Getting Beyond the Barriers to Entry: Social Media 101 for Clinical Trial Professionals.” The purpose of this blog post is to provide [...]

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The Most Important P in Patient Recruitment

updated March 20, 2013by
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My last post, The Patient Recruitment Secret (for Sponsors and CROs), has generated quite a bit of interest, including a repost on Applied Clinical Trials. Paul Ivsin also responded with an excellent blog that includes some fascinating data. As Paul points out, “the number of active ‘competing’ trials at a site is not a reliable predictor of enrollment performance.” I [...]

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The Patient Recruitment Secret (for Sponsors and CROs)

updated February 28, 2013by
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Do you have any competing clinical trials? This question was common at site selection visits during my time as a clinical research coordinator. By competing, what the sponsor typically meant was a similar trial enrolling concurrently with theirs. It’s a logical question, but this question can obscure an important point about patient enrollment. Every clinical trial that is not yours [...]

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Partnerships in Clinical Trials: Exclusive 20% Discount for Rebar Blog Readers

updated January 22, 2013by
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The 22nd annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials is quickly approaching. It will be held at the Orlando World Center Marriott on April 21-24, 2013. The Partnerships team has graciously offered to provide Rebar Interactive blog and newsletter readers with a 20% discount. To receive the discount, all you need to do is use the discount code during registration. The Rebar [...]

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Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials: Thoughts & Themes

updated December 21, 2012by
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If you are often frustrated by the pace of progress in clinical trials, there’s hope. Or at least that’s my feeling after attending the 2nd annual Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials conference in Boston. It was a truly refreshing experience. And given the frustrations we face in clinical trials, I certainly welcome any opportunity to feel that way. But [...]

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(Re)training As a Clinical Research Coordinator

updated December 21, 2012by
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When I left my clinical research coordinator position, I thought I had completed my last CRF. Well, I was wrong. In an unexpected turn of events, I actually completed one last week. Let me explain why. Though I no longer work directly with patients, my perspective on clinical research is strongly rooted in my experience as a clinical research coordinator. [...]

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My Awesome Cajun Code Fest Experience (And What It Means For Clinical Research)

updated May 3, 2012by
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At 8am on Friday morning, I anxiously sat around a table with a group of people I had just met. I’d be spending the next 48 hours with them, and I had no idea what to expect. The event would be unlike anything I’d ever experienced. But I knew one thing. It would be extremely rewarding. And I was very [...]

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Can “Keystone Habits” Create Pharma Innovation?

updated April 13, 2012by
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As I was recently browsing my Linkedin feed, I saw a PharmExec article titled “Innovation: Why is Pharma Scared to Death?” The article had this to say about pharma’s innovation problem: The missing ingredient is courage. (And no, it’s not because the FDA won’t let companies be courageous. Being a regulated industry selling serious products means you can’t make funny [...]

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The Secret to Improving Patient Compliance With Habit

updated April 30, 2012by
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UPDATE: I recently did a interview on this topic with Natalie Morrison of Outsourcing Pharma. Listen to the podcast here: Improve Patent Compliance By Designing Trials Around Real Life. I try to provide my newsletter readers with something extra that is not available publicly on the Rebar Interactive website. This post was originally published as the “something extra” in a [...]

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Is Pfizer’s Virtual Clinical Trial Model a Failure?

updated April 6, 2012by
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In a recent article in Outsourcing Pharma, Nick Taylor detailed a big setback to Pfizer’s virtual clinical trial. According to Miguel Orri, senior director of clinical sciences at Pfizer, “it didn’t recruit.” Orri added, “problems stemmed from a failure, possibly caused by the team’s regulatory focus, to appreciate what patients need.” Are we to conclude that the virtual clinical trial [...]

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