Making clinical trial participation work around real life
Every woman enters a clinical trial with a life that continues beyond the study.
Work. Children. Family. Caring responsibilities. Appointments. Finances. Travel. And, for many, the day-to-day realities of living with a health condition.
Clinical trial participation can add another layer of complexity. Site visits may require time away from work or family, long-distance travel or overnight stays. Patients may need to arrange childcare, navigate unfamiliar locations, pay expenses upfront or coordinate multiple appointments alongside their existing responsibilities.
For some women, these aren’t simply inconveniences. They can become barriers to accessing and remaining in clinical research.
At mdgroup, we help remove them.
We work with sponsors, CROs and research sites to provide practical, personalized support throughout the clinical trial journey — helping make participation more accessible and manageable for patients and their families.
Ensuring women are represented in clinical trials is important for understanding how treatments may affect women differently.
Clinical research can only represent women if women are able to participate.
Designing clinical trials around patients’ lives
Patient support shouldn’t begin and end at the research site.
Our services are designed to address many of the practical challenges patients can experience before, during and after a clinical trial visit.
By combining global operational capabilities with personalized human support, we help patients participate in research without asking them to put the rest of their lives on hold.
Patient Travel, Accommodation & Relocation
Making getting to the trial one less thing to worry about.
Attending a clinical trial may mean travelling across a city, state or even internationally. For a woman balancing work, childcare or other caring responsibilities, the logistics involved can quickly become complex.
mdgroup coordinates patient and caregiver travel around individual needs, including transportation, flights and accommodation. For studies requiring patients to temporarily relocate for treatment, we can also support longer-term accommodation and the practicalities associated with relocation.
Whether we’re coordinating a local journey to site or supporting a family travelling internationally for a specialist treatment, our teams work to make the experience as straightforward as possible.
Patient Payments
Reducing the financial burden of participation.
Patients shouldn’t be financially disadvantaged because they choose to participate in clinical research.
Travel, meals, childcare and other study-related costs can accumulate quickly — particularly when a study requires repeated visits.
Our Patient Payments service helps sponsors manage reimbursements and payments efficiently, reducing the need for patients to carry study-related costs for longer than necessary.
Making the financial side of participation simpler can remove another source of stress from the patient journey.
Decentralized Clinical Services
Bringing clinical research closer to home.
Not every clinical trial activity has to happen at a research site.
Our global network of qualified healthcare professionals enables appropriate clinical services to be delivered in patients’ homes and communities.
Depending on the protocol, this can reduce the number of journeys a patient needs to make to site and allow elements of participation to take place within the familiar environment of home.
For women managing work, children, caring responsibilities or health challenges of their own, reducing unnecessary travel can make a meaningful difference to the practical burden of participation.
It can also extend access to patients who live further away from research sites, helping studies reach beyond traditional geographic boundaries.
Patient Coordination
One point of contact. Every step of the journey.
Clinical trials can be complicated. Patients shouldn’t have to navigate that complexity alone.
Our Patient Coordinators provide a consistent point of contact throughout the study journey, helping patients navigate appointments, travel, logistics and the practicalities of participation with empathy and understanding.
That continuity can be particularly valuable when several services are involved. Rather than asking a patient to coordinate different arrangements themselves, their Patient Coordinator can help bring the different elements of their support together.
It means less time spent figuring out what happens next and more confidence that someone is there to help when they need it.
Supporting the people around the patient
Clinical trial participation rarely affects the patient alone.
A parent participating in a study may need childcare while attending an appointment. A patient travelling for treatment may need a partner or family member alongside them. A child participating in research may require their parent or caregiver to reorganize work and family life around study requirements.
That’s why patient-centered support needs to consider the wider circumstances surrounding participation.
Where appropriate to the study, mdgroup can coordinate support for patients, caregivers and families, recognizing that making participation possible can mean supporting more than the clinical requirements of the protocol.
Better access. Better experiences. Stronger trials.
Reducing practical barriers to participation isn’t only important for patients.
When studies are easier to access and participation is better supported, sponsors and research sites can help create a patient experience designed to support recruitment, engagement, and retention.
For women’s health research and for women participating across every therapeutic area, that matters.
mdgroup helps make clinical research work around patients’ lives, rather than asking patients to make their lives work around clinical research.
And patients feel the difference: 99% of patients supported by mdgroup report being satisfied with their experience.
Make participation easier for your patients
Whether you’re designing a women’s health study or looking to reduce patient burden across another therapeutic area, our team can help you build practical patient support around the needs of your study.
