Coronavirus will have a ‘big impact’ on one-third of U.S. clinical trial sites, survey finds

STAT March 18, 2020
Ed Silverman

Nearly one-third of clinical trial sites expect the novel coronavirus will have a “big or extremely big” impact on their ability to recruit patients for new trials or keep patients already enrolled in existing studies compliant with scheduling, a new survey finds.

In addition, 39% of 170 clinical trial sites surveyed in the U.S. believe patients will be much less or somewhat less likely to enroll in new clinical research trials. And 25% of the sites expect patients currently enrolled in a trial to be much less or somewhat less willing to continue their participation.

Drilling down a bit, non-academic hospital sites were more likely to say that recruiting new patients has been challenging. But trial sites located in academic...

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