Because clinical trial recruitment and retention planning is frequently overlooked during clinical trial protocol development, accrual can be a challenge at the local accrual sites. Nurses and CRAs must continually create new approaches to recruitment, often with little more than anecdotal evidence about “what works.” To address this need, ENACCT provides technical assistance and training to clinical trial staff to help them:

• develop effective outreach, recruitment and retention plans
• provide culturally appropriate outreach recruitment and retention practices

Consulting Services include:

Needs Assessment - determining the strengths and weaknesses of current service delivery and providing specific recommendations for improvement for structural changes to enhance recruitment practices

Custom designed, skill-based Training Programs for CRAs, nurses, and physicians on such topics as:

• How to develop ongoing collaborative partnerships with community groups that can enhance trust and communications between underserved communities and the medical community
• How to develop a realistic recruitment and retention plan beyond “campaigns” or brochures
• How to develop approaches to work with patients with limited reading/writing skills
• Before Consent: Optimal approaches in ascertaining the interest of patients/families in participation
• How to address attitudinal and structural barriers in a creative manner appropriate to the community.