Table 5.

Hospital-driven criteria in the selection of phase II–III trial sites (phase III–IV for medical devices)

	Mean	Upper 95% CL	Lower 95% CL
Site personnel experience and training	22.0	23.1	20.84
Previous experience with site	20.0	21.2	18.7
Facilities/equipment required by trial	19.7	20.7	18.7
Hospital approval/contracting system	17.4	18.5	16.4
Site personnel language proficiency	10.8	11.7	10.0
Hospital quality assurance process	10.1	10.9	9.2

Respondents (N=341) were asked to rate hospital-driven criteria by dividing 100 points across six criteria potentially used when selecting trial sites for phase III studies: Pharma, Biotech, CROs and CTUs answered for phase III studies. Medical device and all others answered for phase IV studies. There was evidence of a statistically significant difference in the level of importance of the six criteria (p<0.0001).

CL, confidence limit; CROs, clinical research organisations; CTUs, clinical trial units.