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Trial visits happen on weekdays during working hours, which excludes people with jobs or caring duties, so trials under-enrol patients under 65. Running research clinics in the evening and at weekends, cluster-randomised across one network for a year, is a cheap test of whether that matters.
Trial visits happen on weekdays during working hours, which excludes people with jobs or caring duties, so research units such as The Christie and The Royal Marsden would offer at least one evening and one weekend session a week for trial visits, infusions and sampling, with protocol windows written to permit it and staff costs covered by the trial budget. Sites with extended hours are expected to enrol more patients under 65 and in employment and to miss fewer visits. The test cluster-randomises research units in one network to extended hours for a year and compares enrolment demographics and visit adherence. Speculative and cheap, it addresses the bottlenecks Trials enrol too few, too slowly and Trials do not represent the people who get cancer.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.