Clinical trials are important for an improving healthcare system. They enable key questions in health to be answered. To ensure that the findings are generalisable to the wider community, they must be inclusive of and accessible to a broad population.
Traditional methods of recruitment into clinical trials rely on direct contact between health providers and those that conduct trials, however, recent innovations mean that is changing.
Technological innovations, particularly the adoption of electronic medical records and use of social media, have provided parallel and complementary approaches to identifying and connecting with potential trial participants. The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the adoption of new approaches and technology, for example the expansion of telehealth.
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To assist researchers, the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance has undertaken a project to identify and summarise the approaches of the various providers of trial recruitment services in Australia.
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