The Evolving Role of the Community Pharmacist: An Opportunity to Bring the Study to the Patient

Integrating community pharmacists into clinical trials offers a novel opportunity to enhance patient engagement, streamline data collection, and improve trial efficiency. By leveraging pharmacists’ accessibility and trust-based connections with patients, clinical trials can achieve higher recruitment, retention, and adherence rates.

This approach streamlines the trial process, significantly reduces costs and site burden, and expedites patient enrollment. Community pharmacists can also collect valuable patient experience data, increase participant diversity, perform medication therapy management (MTM) services, and provide continuous support throughout the trial process. Here, we explore the evolving roles of community pharmacists, emphasizing their potential to positively impact clinical research through their unique pharmacist-patient relationships.

This article was developed as a professional collaboration between Worldwide Clinical Trials, a leading global CRO, and RxE2. Both organizations operate as independent business entities who are invested in the development of cutting-edge technological solutions, supporting innovative study methodology.