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Empowering Patients to Participate in Clinical Trials

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Increasing patient engagement in clinical trials offers opportunities to improve enrollment and retention in clinical trials, helping ensure interventions can be evaluated effectively and that clinical research dollars are used efficiently. Patient and provider awareness, trial exclusion criteria, proximity to trial sites, out-of-pocket medical expenses, and other factors all present as barriers to patient engagement in clinical trials. Congressional and Departmental action has made progress on reducing barriers to trial participation, but there are additional opportunities for future policy action to further empower patient participation.

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ASPE Issue Brief