Leveraging more than 25 years of combined experience in clinical research, clinical care, and healthcare settings, CRESCENT creates custom trial solutions to meet recruitment, engagement, & retention (RER) theory with solutions-based results. This way, our team ensures both community members and clinical researchers are meeting their goals when developing standard-setting trials.

CRESECENT is focused on high-quality engagement, recruitment,and retention in clinical research.We can work with you to identify critical catchment areas, sampling frames, and quantified engagement efforts. Our proven models will help your team maximize diversity, representation, and generalizability within your clinical research portfolio. With more than 25 years combined experience, our team is here to find the engagement solutions that work for you and your study. Examples of our custom approaches include:

Stakeholder Engagement Development

Community engagement has emerged as an effective solution for the inclusion of historically marginalized and minoritized (HMM) communities in clinical research. CRESCENT formalizes this process through the creation of long-term stakeholder networks, integrating these network directly into research protocols and general best practices. Networks of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and community leaders are operationalized by advancing innovative, patient-centered change frameworks. Once HMM communities connected to trials have co-ownership of research engagement channels, efficient and productive bidirectional relationships emerge.

Mapping Analysis

Introducing an entirely new understanding of opportunities for recruitment and engagement, CRESCENT leverages existing datasets, in concert with de-identified trial data, to develop innovative geospatial maps and toolkits that provide understanding of access to care and research studies for diverse populations across the United States. By understanding and pinpointing areas of access paired with demographic data, CRESCENT ensures that studies are connected to community partners and potential participants in areas of greatest needs dependent on the geographic region and therapeutic focus.

Tailored event design

CRESCENT believes that a community-led approach to engagement and empowerment is the best way to assess true barriers to clinical trials. We are committed to developing sustainable partnerships and programming in collaboration with community organizations and leaders to address the needs and concerns that impact health disparities and representation in research. Our engagement with the community is based on traditional approaches, by going out to the community and giving talks, tabling, health fairs and one-on-ones, combined with our innovative aspects of community engagement. We focus on the quality and effectiveness, process planning and designing engagement tailored to your team’s needs and level of participation to be achieved.

Custom trial support is priced at your trial’s needs. Please contact us for more information.