Patient access

How many patients meet the actual criteria, how were they counted, and how many competing studies are recruiting them?

Startup ability

How long do contracts, budgets, ethics submissions, pharmacy and local approvals usually take at this site?

Protocol burden

Can the site perform the required procedures, sample handling, imaging, pharmacy and visit schedule without unusual workarounds?

Questions people actually ask

FAQ

Should I trust a site's enrollment estimate?

Treat it as a hypothesis until the site can explain the patient source and protocol-specific exclusions.

What is a good site?

One that starts predictably, enrolls credible patients, executes the protocol well and communicates early when assumptions fail.

Related

How Many Sites Does a Clinical Trial Need?More sites can increase recruitment capacity, but every site adds startup, monitoring and management burden. The answer depends on credible enrollment per site. How to Build a Clinical Trial Enrollment Forecast That Is Not FictionEnrollment forecasts fail when they multiply optimistic site estimates by the number of sites. Build the forecast from protocol-specific evidence. Clinical Trial Site Startup Time: What Slows It Down?Startup delay is usually a chain of contracts, budgets, regulatory/ethics work, pharmacy, training and vendor dependencies rather than one single clock.

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