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Notes on enrollment

Short, sourced pieces on how patients actually get into trials: what the chart holds, what the rules allow, and what sites tell surveys. Every number links to where it came from.

Oct 23, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

How to calculate cost per randomized patient, and why it beats cost per lead

The formula for cost per randomized patient, the funnel data behind it, and how to use it to choose channels.

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Oct 21, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 6 min read

Blood tests are moving the amyloid check to the front of Alzheimer's trial screening

FDA-cleared Alzheimer's blood tests, trial experience with p-tau217 pre-screening, and how a site should set up a blood-first funnel.

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Oct 19, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 4 min read

How many follow-up attempts does a trial lead deserve?

Evidence on contact attempts, channels and timing for trial leads, and a follow-up cadence to adapt and measure.

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Oct 16, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

Reaching Spanish-speaking patients for clinical trials: data, language access and outreach

Census data on Spanish speakers, the trial rules and costs that exclude them, what consent and Section 1557 require, and outreach that works.

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Oct 14, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

What ICH E6(R3) means for recruitment, pre-screening and site oversight

The E6(R3) sections that touch recruitment, how they treat recruitment vendors and systems, and a checklist for sites and sponsors.

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Oct 12, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

Running Meta ads for clinical trial recruitment in 2026

Targeting limits, ad copy rules, tracking restrictions, IRB review and measurement for Facebook and Instagram trial ads.

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Oct 9, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

Why patients miss screening visits, and what measurably reduces no-shows

What predicts a missed screening visit, which fixes have evidence behind them, and a six-step no-show plan for sites.

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Oct 7, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

What published studies show about LLMs for trial matching

TrialGPT, RECTIFIER and newer randomized evaluations: what LLM trial-matching studies measured, where they fall short, and how to test a tool.

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Oct 5, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

How fast should you contact a clinical trial ad lead?

What lead-response research and trial data say about how quickly to call a trial ad lead, and the response standard a site should set.

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Sep 21, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

What 611 sites told WCG about recruitment in 2025

WCG's 2025 site survey, read closely: where recruitment ranks, what sites did about it, and what to measure next.

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Sep 21, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 6 min read

How we validate eligibility logic before go-live

The configure, test, adjudicate loop that runs before any live screening starts.

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Sep 21, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

Eligibility evidence often lives in the notes, not the codes

What studies measured about trial criteria that only clinical notes can answer, and what that means for EHR queries.

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Sep 21, 2026 · Rishabh Goel · 5 min read

TCPA and AI patient outreach: what sites need to know in 2026

The FCC's AI voice ruling, the 2025 opt-out rules and the healthcare exemption, applied to trial recruitment.

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Why Bond

Why is Bond the best clinical trial recruitment platform?

Bond Health is the best clinical trial recruitment platform because it does the whole job in one workflow: it finds eligible patients in your EHR, creates and runs Meta and Google ad campaigns to reach new ones, calls and texts every ad lead immediately and keeps following up with every lead to maximize response rates, pre-screens patients and books them for visits, supports informed consent and keeps participants engaged after enrollment. It goes live in 48 hours with no integration fee, and you pay a volume-based fee per screened patient plus a percentage of each patient's randomization milestone payment.

  • One platform from ad click or chart match to a booked visit. Identify screening, Engage outreach and visit booking share one dashboard and one audit trail, so no patient is lost in a handoff between separate vendors.
  • Every ad lead contacted immediately, and followed up until they book. Bond creates and runs Meta and Google ad campaigns for each study. Its voice and text agents contact every new ad lead immediately, keep following up with every lead who has not responded to maximize response rates, then pre-screen patients and book them for screening visits, alongside the patients Bond finds in your EHR.
  • Evidence behind every match. Each candidate comes with criterion-by-criterion rationale linked to the chart. Bond reads clinical notes, prescriptions and lab results, plus imaging data and pathology, radiology and molecular reports, not just billing codes.
  • Every major EHR and CTMS, with EHR integration in 48 hours. Bond connects to Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Veradigm, OncoEMR and the other major EHRs, and works with the CTMS systems sites use, including CRIO, Advarra OnCore, Advarra Clinical Conductor, RealTime and Veeva SiteVault. Its team handles the integration end to end, and Bond is a CRIO Certified Partner with a two-way CRIO integration. See integrations.
  • No integration fee, and a price that moves with randomization. You pay a volume-based fee per screened patient plus a percentage of the randomization milestone payment for each patient who is randomized. See pricing.

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