Definition
Clinical trial recruitment
Clinical trial recruitment is the process of identifying eligible patients, reaching them inside a clinical window, confirming interest and eligibility, and coordinating the next site or navigator step. Matching finds who qualifies. Recruitment is the conversation that turns a match into a consented, scheduled participant. In oncology, that conversation is where most eligible adults are lost.
Definition
What clinical trial recruitment is
Clinical trial recruitment is the operational work after a match exists: first contact, barrier discovery, protocol pre-screening, consent capture, and handoff to a site or navigator. Identification systems can score thousands of records. Recruitment is whether a person is actually reached, in their language, before the window closes.
US adult cancer trial enrollment has sat near 3% to 5% for years. The bottleneck is not only eligibility. It is fragmented data, limited coordinator capacity, and missed outreach. An eligible patient cannot enroll in a trial they never hear about.
Rivvi is the engagement layer for that conversation. Matching engines, including Massive Bio's, decide who and why. Rivvi runs first contact, pre-screening questions, and status write-back across voice, text, and web chat, with adverse-event routing on every conversation and clinical judgment left with clinicians.
Clinical trial recruitment, answered
- How is recruitment different from matching?
- Matching scores eligibility from consented clinical and biomarker data. Recruitment is the governed outreach that turns each match into a reached, screened, coordinated participant. One without the other leaves eligible patients uncontacted.
- Why do so few adults with cancer enroll in trials?
- An estimated 3% to 5% of US adults with cancer enroll in therapeutic trials. The gap is driven by fragmented records, complex eligibility, limited workforce, and missed chances to reach patients inside a narrow clinical window — not by a shortage of people who would qualify.
- How does Rivvi run trial recruitment?
- Rivvi works the candidate list: first-contact outreach, protocol pre-screening, scheduling, and write-back to the hub or CRM. Qualified participants route to the site. People who are not ready stay warm. Live today with Massive Bio across oncology programs in 8 countries.