Participant Info
Insurance is not needed as the pharmaceutical company funds the research studies.
You will have access to our medical staff during the study.
You may withdraw consent or decide to stop participating at any time during the study.
Your information is kept confidential and is never shared without your permission.
Why Sign Up for a Clinical Trial?
Have you ever wondered about the process of how new medications and treatments reach patients? After scientific laboratory research, before the US Food and Drug Administration can qualify medications for use by patients, they must go through a rigorous series of clinical trials. Clinical trials cannot be conducted without volunteers.
Frequently Asked Questions
All clinical trials have guidelines about who can participate. Using inclusion/exclusion criteria is an important principle of medical research that helps to produce reliable results. The factors that allow someone to participate in a clinical trial are called “inclusion criteria” and those that disallow someone from participating are called “exclusion criteria”. These criteria are based on such factors as age, gender, the type and stage of a disease, previous treatment history, and other medical conditions. Before joining a clinical trial, a participant must qualify for the study. Some research studies seek participants with illnesses or conditions to be studied in the clinical trial, while others need healthy participants. It is important to note that inclusion and exclusion criteria are not used to reject people personally. Instead, the criteria are used to identify appropriate participants and keep them safe. The criteria help ensure that researchers will be able to answer the questions they plan to study. Check out the video below to learn more about being a participant.
