Clinical Trials Arena June 5, 2025
Digital innovations such as ePRO and eCOA are streamlining clinical trials, boosting participant engagement, and improving data quality and compliance while enabling real-time insights.
Recruiting enough participants and keeping them engaged through lengthy clinical trials is increasingly challenging. In fact, more than 80% of trials in the US fail to meet their enrolment targets.
Globally, more than half of trials end early due to insufficient participant recruitment. Even when studies do enrol enough patients, retaining them is hard. Dropout rates reach as high as 30%. Such attrition not only jeopardises the scientific validity of results but also drives up costs.
Trial protocols themselves are also becoming more complex each year, with regulatory demands and scientific ambitions increasing the number of...







