ReferralPlus Increases Match Rate For Clinical Trial Volunteers By Over 66%

Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:33 in Health & Medicine

ReferralPlus is a tool to match patients who disqualify for one study with others they might qualify for, using a geo-therapeutic matching algorithm with other studies, similar to how OpenTable matches people with the restaurants they are interested in by using demographic and time availability algorithms. It was created because 95% of patients who respond to a trial recruitment advertisement do not qualify and/or enroll in that study. Most of those patients never enroll in another study.  read more

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