Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment Time Longer Than European Average

Conducting clinical trials in Spain is known to be a complex and bureaucratic procedure. This is highlighted by Spain's pharmaceutical industry association Farmaindustria's statement that it takes 217 days to recruit patients for clinical trials in the country, 83 days more than the European average. Javier Urzay, Associate Director of Farmaindustria Services, attributes the delays in patient recruitment to administrative procedures such as the time that it takes hospital management bodies to sign contracts with

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