Insufficient recruitment and premature discontinuation of clinical trials in Switzerland: qualitative study with trialists and other stakeholders.
CONCLUSIONS: Recruitment of participants into clinical trials in Switzerland is challenging because of various, often interlinked factors related to the Swiss health system, available funding, investigators, and patients. Common goals and concerted efforts by involved stakeholders appear necessary to achieve improvement.
PMID: 29185240 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - Category: General Medicine Authors: Briel M, Elger B, von Elm E, Satalkar P Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research
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