Ensure stakeholder commitment

Ensure a clinical “champion”

  • “Champions” are clinicians who value a trial and lead the way by showing their support.
  • The literature and experience show that trial champions have a clear and positive effect on recruitment.
  • For example, a champion may help demonstrate the value of the trial to other clinicians, secure resources for the trial, or address recruitment and other difficulties in an ongoing way.

Ensure staff buy-in

  • Ask, consider, and respond to the opinions of the people who will make a trial happen.
  • Demonstrate the trial’s relevance and meaning for research.
  • Find ways to give ownership and allow for staff input early and throughout the trial.

Ensure buy-in from experts/specialists who are needed to implement the trial

  • Think broadly about all the people who make a trial work—beyond your core team. For example, inpatient or outpatient treatment nurses, laboratory staff, surgeons, radiologists, pharmacy staff, or the public relations team.
  • As with your immediate team members, seek other experts’ and specialists’ opinions.
  • Share your thoughts on the trial’s relevance and meaning with them as well.

Confirm buy-in at the institutional level

  • Each trial is part of a much bigger picture. Check that a trial you may adopt serves your institution well and that it is seen as doing so.

Literature and Tools (58)

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National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene trial: Advancing the science of recruitment and breast cancer risk assessment in minority communities.
Posted: Feb 13, 2013.
McCaskill-Stevens W,Wilson JW,Cook ED,Edwards CL,Gibson RV,McElwain DL,Figueroa-Moseley CD,Paskett ED,Roberson NL,Wickerham DL,Wolmark N. Clin Trials. 2013 Jan 18. [Epub ahead of print]
KEYWORDS: Language or Cultural Barriers, Staff Experience Level, Physician Champions, Women, Minority Groups, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, Verbal Communications, Radio, TV, Web, Print Media, Brochure or Flyer, Letter, Cancer, Prevention
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Strategies to engage clinical staff in subject recruitment.
Posted: Dec 18, 2012.
Segre LS,Buckwalter KC,Friedemann ML. J Res Nurs. 2011 Jul 01. 16. 4. 321-32.
KEYWORDS: Level of Clinical Trials Knowledge or Awareness, Incentives, Attitudes, Institutional Issues
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Establishing a Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program: The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School–University Hospital Cancer Center Experience.
Posted: Nov 28, 2012.
Wieder R,Teal R,Saunders T,Weiner BJ. J Oncology Practice. 2012 Nov 27. [Epub ahead of print]
KEYWORDS: Level of Clinical Trials Knowledge or Awareness, Incentives, Physician Champions, Institutional Issues, Minority Groups, Cancer
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Increasing minority accrual onto clinical trials.
Posted: Sep 27, 2012.
J Oncol Pract. 2009 Jun. 5. 4. 202-3.
KEYWORDS: Language or Cultural Barriers, Underserved, Non-English Speaking, Cost/Insurance, Urban, Level of Clinical Trials Knowledge or Awareness, Physician Champions, Insurance Coverage, Regulatory Issues, Eligibility, Minority Groups, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, Other, Radio, Print Media, Cancer, Prevention, Screening
Image Representing Resource Type (Journal Review Article)
Factors Influencing Inclusion of Patients with Malignancies in Clinical Trials.
Posted: Sep 13, 2012.
Tournoux C, Katsahian S, Chevret S, Levy V. Cancer. 2006 Jan 15. 106. 2. 258-70.
KEYWORDS: Knowledge/Attitudes/Beliefs, Logistics/Transportation, Staff Experience Level, Inadequate Staffing, Eligibility, Study Burden, Consent, Older Adults, Minority Groups, Cancer

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