The Art of Recruiting

There can be no research without patients. But how does one find suitable candidates? Our field – infections caused by resistant bacteria – poses an additional challenge. This is because once a diagnosis has been established, the attending physician has little time before having to start the treatment. In consequence, the window for recruiting a patient is quite small, sometimes only a few hours. And yet we manage to do it.

Five of the Principal Investigators participating in COMBACTE studies give their testimonials on patient recruitment – some of the challenges they meet, and how they solve them.

“As the study progresses, we’re able to share increasingly specific information about what we’re doing in the study, and it becomes easier to convince candidates to take part.”

 

“These short lines of communication give us a great view of which new arrivals are potential candidates for recruitment. That’s the key to successful recruiting.”

 

“We have a relatively large number of potential participants and sufficient manpower to recruit them. In addition, the study involved is purely observational, meaning that participation doesn’t require any effort on the patient’s part.”

 

COMBACTE Magazine p 36-37