Recruitment gets the spotlight. But retention is where trials live or die.

Retention Isn't Luck — It's Strategy: Why Patients Are Still Dropping Out of Your Trials

There’s a dirty little secret we don’t talk about enough in clinical research.

Recruitment is a beast, yes — but retention?
That’s the silent killer.
The quiet siphon draining your study timeline, your protocol integrity, and your budget — one dropout at a time.

Let me tell you something: most trials don’t fail because they can’t get people in.
They fail bec…