Making Clinical Trials Less of a Tribulation

"For developers of new drugs and treatments, one of the toughest hurdles has nothing to do with medicine. It's recruiting patients for clinical trials. And when it comes to recruiting minority patients, the challenge is even greater.

New approaches are being tried that can dramatically speed up the recruiting process and reach more patients from groups frequently underrepresented in studies.

At the heart of these new methods is the shift to electronic medical records, which makes patient searches faster and more methodical—in part by also allowing researchers to involve patients in trials from day one of their treatment." To read the entire WSJ article, written by Jennifer Corbett Dooren, click here.