MIAMI — Incorporating clinical trials into daily practice can both enhance patient treatment options and provide a stream of reimbursement revenue to support the practice, according to a presenter at the Scrubs and Heels Summit.
“In my practice, I always ask myself, no matter where a patient is in the course of disease: Would this patient potentially benefit from inclusion in a clinical trial?” Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, associate professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said during the presentation. “Start small, select the right studies, educate your patients, discuss clinical trials with them early in their disease course, and it can help to grow your practice. It can be done; one of the most important things is making the finances work.”