Clinical Trial Recruitment: Understanding Participation and Strategies for Boosting Enrollment

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Introduction

Clinical trials are vital to medical research as they’re often the best and only way to test new interventions, such as treatments or drugs. However, recruiting subjects — especially from demographic or socioeconomic groups that are typically underrepresented in research — is often a major challenge for study coordinators. We examined some of the barriers to clinical trial participation and suggest some outreach strategies that may improve enrollment.

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