dbpRecruit
We’re not a recruitment agency. We’re physicians with 25 yearsof clinical trial experience.
We won’t spend a cent on advertising until we know whether advertising is actually your problem. More often than not, the answer is in the protocol — not the media budget.
How dbpRecruit works
Three stages. Each one has to earn the next.
More than 80% of trials run late. The industry’s answer is more reach — more ads, more channels, more leads. We think that’s the wrong order of operations.
1
The protocol
Before a cent goes into advertising, we run an AI supported analysis of your protocol against the competing trials chasing the same patients, known drivers of slow enrolment, and your site footprint. Often the answer is already sitting there: one inclusion criterion that halves the eligible population, three sites in the wrong catchment area, a competitor recruiting your patients two streets away.
2
The patients themselves
Where it’s worth doing, we ask patients directly About their expectations and the barriers they see — and prove online reachability in parallel. 100 kidney disease patients surveyed in 6 days in Germany. 15,824 prostate cancer patients across the US & Europe in 51 days.
3
Recruitment
Only once online recruitment has proven both feasible and efficient, we build a pre-screening process that genuinely qualifies every candidate: a personal phone call as a concierge service and, where it makes sense, an at-home lab test. Only patients with a real chance of qualifying ever reach your sites.
Not a database. A diagnosis.
Curated access, not anonymous volume
We don’t operate a static, always-on patient database. We build the right Access for each study — through direct patient engagement and our Patient Advocacy Group & KOL network — so every referral is relevant, not just plentiful.
“Others sell you leads. We tell you first whether and where you Need to recruit at all — and then deliver the patients who stay.”
— DBPi recruitment pitch
Who it’s for
Built for sponsors, CROs and sites
Sponsors
Get ahead of recruitment risk before it becomes a timeline problem — starting with a diagnostic, not a media plan.
CROs
Bring a differentiated, evidence-based recruitment partner into study proposals — beyond generic digital advertising.
Sites
Receive pre-qualified, trust-primed referrals instead of unfiltered leads that burn coordinator time.
Case Studies
Patient Recruitment & Interview Qualification: GIST
A digital recruitment study identifying and qualifying GIST patients and caregivers in the US for qualitative research
Clinical Trial Recruitment Feasibility: Androgenetic Alopecia Survey
A digital patient survey assessing the feasibility of identifying and engaging eligible men with hair loss for a clinical trial in Australia
Digital Clinical Trial Recruitment: Venous Leg Ulcers
A 5-month digital recruitment campaign supporting patient recruitment for a venous leg ulcer clinical trial across multiple sites
Patient Recruitment & Engagement: Stroke & Parkinson’s Disease
A targeted digital recruitment campaign identifying UK patients with Stroke and Parkinson’s for pharmaceutical video interview
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Start with a conversation, not a media plan.