Can the pharmaceutical industry reduce attrition rates?

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Published in Nat Rev Drug Discov on August 01, 2004

Authors

Ismail Kola1, John Landis

Author Affiliations

1: Basic Research at Merck Research Labs, 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, New Jersey 07075, USA. ismail_kola@merck.com

Associated clinical trials:

Assessing Progression to Type-2 Diabetes (APT-2D): A Prospective Cohort Study Expanded From BRITE-SPOT (Bio-bank and Registry for StratIfication and Targeted intErventions in the Spectrum Of Type 2 Diabetes) (APT-2D) | NCT02838693

Matching Patients With Hematologic Malignancy to Adequate Clinical Trials | NCT02758080

Integrated Molecular Analysis of Cancer in Gynaecologic Oncology (IMAC-GO) | NCT02078544

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