Observational studyPediatric emergency care2019
A Time-and-Motion Study of Clinical Trial Eligibility Screening in a Pediatric Emergency Department.
Observational study in Pediatric emergency care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Empowering clinical trial design with agentic intelligence and real-world data.Nature communications · 2026Article
- TrialMatchAI: an end-to-end AI-powered clinical trial recommendation system to streamline patient-to-trial matching.Nature communications · 2026Article
- "The Truth Is, We Must Miss Some": A Qualitative Study of the Patient Eligibility Screening Process, and Automation Perspectives, for Cancer Clinical Trials.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Implementation of Machine Learning Pipelines for Clinical Practice: Development and Validation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
- A Real-Time Automated Patient Screening System for Clinical Trials Eligibility in an Emergency Department: Design and Evaluation.JMIR medical informatics · 2019Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveChallenges with efficient patient recruitment including sociotechnical barriers for clinical trials are major barriers to the timely and efficacious conduct of translational studies. We conducted a time-and-motion study to investigate the workflow of clinical trial enrollment in a pediatric emergency department.
methodsWe observed clinical research coordinators during 3 clinically staffed shifts. One clinical research coordinator was shadowed at a time. Tasks were marked in 30-second intervals and annotated to include patient screening, patient contact, performing procedures, and physician contact. Statistical analysis was conducted on the patient enrollment activities.
resultsWe conducted fifteen 120-minute observations from December 12, 2013, to January 3, 2014 and shadowed 8 clinical research coordinators. Patient screening took 31.62% of their time, patient contact took 18.67%, performing procedures took 17.6%, physician contact was 1%, and other activities took 31.0%.
conclusionsScreening patients for eligibility constituted the most time. Automated screening methods could help reduce this time. The findings suggest improvement areas in recruitment planning to increase the efficiency of clinical trial enrollment.
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