Success and failure factors of patient recruitment for industry-sponsored clinical trials and the role of the electronic health records—a qualitative interview study in the Nordic countries

Table 3 Success and failure factors of patient recruitment in clinical drug trials

Sponsor related	Site/investigator related	Patient related	Collaboration related	Start-up related^a
Trial protocol	Access to patients	Patients’ medical need for new treatments	Sponsor-site-patient collaboration	Ethics committee evaluation
Trial preparation and feasibility evaluations	Investigators’ motivation for trials and commitment to recruitment	Patients’ role in their care and attitudes to clinical trials		Site contracts
	Site resources, setup, and experience

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