title: Using technology to address recruitment issues in the clinical trial process.
abstract: It takes nearly ten years to get a drug through the discovery and development pipeline and onto the market; most of this time is spent in the clinical phase. Clinical development times vary widely from drug to drug, but a drug typically spends just over 6 years going through clinical trials and regulatory processes. At least 3 years of this time is spent recruiting patients. Every month by which the development process can be shortened is worth US $25 million in additional income for the average drug. Can the recruitment time be shortened?
authors.affiliation: Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. lm272@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Emmett
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Power
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000639:trends; D018579:Patient Selection; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D017748:Time Management / Q000191:economics*