Conference Coverage (ACTG)

Patient Recruitment and Retention a Problem for ACTG

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 25th, 1995

Many institutions conducting AIDS clinical trials have been unable to find and keep study participants.

A study of 28 institutions participating in U.S. government-sponsored clinical trials showed that 18 of the sites (64 percent) failed to meet their patient accrual goals.

The study, conducted by Washington University researcher Michael Klebert and colleagues, was presented at the Twentieth AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Meeting, held December 2-6, 1995, in Washington, D.C. The ACTG Patient Care Committee, a resource committee of the ACTG executive committee, performed the study.

"Adequate recruitment and retention are...

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