Home Trial Support

In our Home Trial Support service we replace a number of the on sites visits required during a clinical trial with nurse visits to the patient’s own home; in many cases up to 50% of the trial visits can be performed in the home, which significantly reduces the burden on the patient.  We have seen recruitment rates increased by up to 60% when utilizing Home Trial Support and repeatedly report retention rates  >95%.

Reducing the burden on the patient and family is a powerful tool to enhance recruitment/retention and is advantageous for most patient groups – reducing travel for elderly or infirm patients and enabling active patients to continue with their normal lives.

What can be done in the home?

Any visit that does not require a doctor to be present and where any equipment required is portable can be performed in the patient’s home.

We categorize Home Trial Support into 2 types of visit –

Simple Visits

Consisting of the following typical assessments:

• Safety Blood Draws
• Subsequent centrifugation
• Courier Shipments
• QOL & HE questionnaires
• Simple efficacy assessments
• Simple IMP administration
• Drug Accountability / Tablet counts
• Reporting AEs & Con Meds

Complex Visits

Consisting of the following typical assessments:

• Administration of complex IMP – IV injection / infusion
• Typically compounded products, delivered to the home in cold chain conditions
• ECG