Human-Centered Design: A Possible Solution to Rural Clinical Trial Enrollment

Over the last few decades, clinical trial design has become increasingly complex, with more narrowly defined patient subpopulations and increased requirements for patient-reported outcome measures, visits, and procedures.4 The increasing complexity of clinical trials creates undue burdens on partici...

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Published inOncology issues Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 61 - 63
Main Authors Swenson, Wade T., Westergard, Emily, Schroeder, Zachary, Swenson, Abigail
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York City SLACK INCORPORATED 01.09.2023
Subjects
Cancer
Clinical trials
Design thinking
Internal medicine
Medicine
Oncology
Patients
Rural areas
United States > US
North Dakota
Minnesota
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Summary:Over the last few decades, clinical trial design has become increasingly complex, with more narrowly defined patient subpopulations and increased requirements for patient-reported outcome measures, visits, and procedures.4 The increasing complexity of clinical trials creates undue burdens on participants. In my rural oncology practice in central Minnesota, clinical trial access was provided to patients through collaborations with larger regional health systems over 2 decades. Open-label study design Table 1 High-Value Characteristics of Rural-Focused Clinical Trials* A human-centered approach to designing clinical trials that considers the preferences and experiences of rural cancer patients and providers could increase the number of patients enrolling in trials and help close the health equity gap in rural areas. 1.
ISSN:1046-3356
2573-1777
DOI:10.3928/25731777-20230920-07