2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.10.001
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The crisis in recruitment for clinical trials in Alzheimer's and dementia: An action plan for solutions

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“…Slow recruitment to clinical trials is a consistent barrier to developing improved treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)[13]. Few interventions have demonstrated effectiveness for improving AD trial recruitment [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Slow recruitment to clinical trials is a consistent barrier to developing improved treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)[13]. Few interventions have demonstrated effectiveness for improving AD trial recruitment [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The available diagnostic tools are, however, invasive (CSF) or expensive (PET), hampering widespread application for diagnosis (eg, in a primary care setting) and large scale identification of individuals with abnormal amyloid status in the context of recruitment for trials 13. There is an urgent need for low‐invasive and affordable techniques to prescreen for cerebral amyloid pathology, subsequently forwarding fewer individuals toward further invasive and/or expensive testing.…”
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“…21 This is especially true in the current era of trials that require PET scans for amyloid or tau to determine eligibility. Hundreds of diverse sites around the world, each recruiting a handful or two of subjects to achieve sample size, are logistically managed by a complex multivendor infrastructure struggling to maintain a semblance of uniformity of protocol.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%