Budgeting and Contracting for Patient Recruitment

Patient recruitment budgets can be as complex and varied as the study protocols they support. The days of retro-fitting recruitment into generic clinical study budget templates, or as single line items, are long gone. Patient recruitment involves customized research, planning and tactics-requiring a discrete budget, managed by a decision-maker who can oversee the entire budgeting process. While there is no simple template to follow, there are steps you can take to make the task of creating a patient recruitment budget more manageable.