Why Bringing The Trial To The Patient Beats Dragging Patients To Sites

Why Bringing The Trial To The Patient Beats Dragging Patients To Sites

January 28, 2026 · 21 min · Season 7 · Episode 8

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The episode discusses innovative approaches to patient recruitment in clinical trials, emphasizing the importance of bringing trials to patients rather than the other way around.

Send us Fan Mail Want clinical research that respects real life? We sit down with Caroline Potts, GM of Site and Patient Services at MRN, to rethink how patients are recruited and supported when the standard trial model collides with work, school, caregiving, and distance. We start at the site level, exploring why trial sites remain the beating heart of studies, then unpack how participants actually arrive: investigator databases, advocacy networks, disease-specific portals, and focused socia...

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