In-Home Trials For Oncology Patients

Retaining And Engaging Your Oncology Patients

As oncology trials become more competitive, the pressures of patient recruitment and retention are increasing. Each patient enrolled is critical and retaining those patients for full data sets, even more so.

In-home healthcare for oncology patients has been in place for a long time – it’s really nothing new, and the adoption of remote trial visits to provide in-home clinical care during a trial has gained more traction in recent years.

MRN Has Been Delivering Safe, In-home Clinical Trial Visits To Oncology Patients Since 2006

Putting patients at the heart of research is what we do. We support oncology clinical research by delivering trials to patients in their own communities around the world.

It can be exhausting traveling to a site for every trial visit. A patient feeling unwell due to the state of their disease does not need additional burden when participating in a trial. We know it’s important to give oncology patients the right level of care and we also know that patients like having the flexibility of being seen in their home built into a protocol.

Our hybrid, patient-centric clinical trial delivery for oncology patients is specifically tailored to meet the needs of patients, sites and pharma clients. A patient being at home allows for the ability of extra care and comfort once therapy is complete and decreasing the cost of hospital stay for everyone involved. It also allows these patients, who can be feeling unwell before and after their therapy is complete, to be able to stay in the comfort of their own home instead of traveling while feeling fragile- this cannot be underestimated.

Types of cancer we have provided decentralized trials for:

• Solid Tumors
• Carcinoma
• Sarcoma
• Melanoma
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma

In-home Visit Activity Can Vary

By bringing the trial visits to patients in their own home, the time and costs involved in travel are significantly reduced, particularly if the sites are not local. The HTS visits MRN conduct allow data to be collected from patients in real time and are more accurate in their real-life setting.

Some in-home activities that we have completed include:

• Toxicity scoring
• IMP Administration
• IV Infusion
• PD/PK Sample Collection
• ECGs
• In-home drug reconstitution
• Safety blood draws
• Targeted physical exams
• QoL Questionnaires

A patient’s relationship with the PI and site staff is critical to the patients care and success of their participation in the trial. We believe that our HCPs should be introduced to the physician, patient and their family to build trust, a critical part of being part of the team delivering healthcare to a patient.

MRN’s Expertise In Creating Optimized Solutions

With our extensive global network we have experience in delivering for patients wherever they live. Our global expertise in legal, compliance and quality regulations is unparalleled and our ability to complete visits in the community across the globe provides a wider diverse demographic of participants.

Our team’s level of engagement means that we are discovering ways to work with the clients flexibly. No matter the experience of the client, our team gets involved in consulting and supporting to determine where hybrid visits make sense. This makes it easier on patients as each protocol is unique.

Contact our Home Trial Delivery Experts: enquiries@themrn.co.uk