Summary
This paper describes the Recruitment Innovation Center's mission, structure, and portfolio of customised recruitment support services delivered to 173 multicenter clinical trials across diverse disease areas. The RIC, funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, designs, field-tests, and disseminates evidence-based recruitment and retention innovations—including feasibility assessments, community engagement, and digital campaigns—via a virtual toolbox and collaborative webinars. The centre aims to evaluate intervention efficacy and democratise access to these resources to improve trial completion, budget performance, participant diversity, and statistical power across the clinical research enterprise.
UK applicability
Whilst this describes a United States-based initiative funded through the NIH, the methodologies and frameworks for recruitment innovation could inform similar capacity-building efforts within UK clinical research networks, particularly those affiliated with the National Institute for Health and Care Research. However, applicability would require adaptation to UK regulatory contexts, ethics frameworks, and healthcare system structures.
Key measures
Number of studies supported (173), types of recruitment interventions deployed, and programme goals including on-time trial completion, budget adherence, diversity of participation, and adequate statistical power
Outcomes reported
The study reports on the design, implementation, and customised recruitment support provided by the RIC across 173 clinical trials. Support measures included site feasibility assessments, community input sessions, recruitment materials recommendations, social media campaigns, and study-specific suggestions to enhance participant engagement and trial completion.
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