Use of Big Data to Aid Patient Recruitment for Clinical Trials Involving Biosimilars and Rare Diseases

Patient recruitment and retention are arguably the greatest challenges to the timely execution of clinical trials. This is particularly true in the case of trials involving biosimilars and those focused on rare diseases. For biosimilars, recruitment success typically hinges on difficulty of access to reimbursement for the originator product and may be hindered by competition from studies with other biosimilars and those with new chemical...