Source the whole ecosystem from one network.
PCRA Caribbean provides the adjunct services that keep community studies across the region recruiting, retained, and on time — delivered by experienced community research nurses and coordinators, at a price that reflects delivery, not overhead.
The ecosystem, end to end.
Recruiting into community studies fails for predictable reasons: eligible participants are never reached, drop off between interest and enrolment, and sites don't have capacity for the extra work a protocol demands. PCRA Caribbean solves each of these with services designed as adjuncts to your sites — bolt on exactly what a study needs, nothing it doesn't.
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Core services
Each one available on its own, or in any combination your protocol needs.
Clinical trial prescreening
Centralised pre-screening: a participant identification and social-media response unit for your sites — hospital, community, and private. We take the responses your advertising and social campaigns generate and turn them into qualified, screening-ready participants. Pre-screening calls are made only by nurses or experienced research healthcare assistants — never the “signposters” many providers rely on — and multilingual staff support the region's English, Spanish, French and Dutch-speaking populations. To protect quality, we cap pre-screening at 200 patients per study per week.
Participant recruitment and onboarding
A single point of contact for your study's enquiries. Once patients are qualified, we book screening appointments, keep them engaged, and support consent — reducing drop-off between “interested” and “enrolled”.
Participant helpline
A dedicated patient helpline for participants and caregivers: study questions, appointment queries, and support with study devices, apps, and diaries. Run by people who understand research participants, not a generic call centre.
Safety reporting and escalation support
Structured intake and rapid escalation of safety events and potential serious breaches from community settings to your pharmacovigilance team, within 12 hours and with a full audit trail.
Emergency unblinding support
A 24/7 unblinding line — out-of-hours code-break contact for community and hospital studies, with controlled processes to prevent unnecessary unblinding.
Medical information and query handling
Trained staff answering clinical and study-specific questions from sites, participants, and healthcare professionals, with sponsor-approved responses and full documentation.
No one else is doing all of this.
From pre-screening to a 24/7 unblinding line — sponsors can source the whole ecosystem through one agreement, with one network.
Built for the Caribbean. Priced for value.
Experienced community teams
Our services are delivered by research nurses and coordinators who work in primary care and community settings every day. They know the patients, the practices, and the protocols.
Genuine value
PCRA Caribbean runs as a commercial organisation, to commercial timelines — profit just isn't our primary goal. Services are delivered through existing clinical providers, so you pay for delivery (quoted in US$), not for layers of overhead.
One agreement, one network
Add any of these services to a study running at our sites — or use them standalone to support your own.
Common questions
How does PCRA Caribbean provide feasibility counts?
Counts are drawn from the coded electronic health records of patients across our member sites, at protocol stage. Contact us and we will scope the turnaround for your study.
Who makes PCRA Caribbean's pre-screening calls?
Only nurses or experienced research healthcare assistants — never generic 'signposters'. Multilingual staff support the region's English, Spanish, French and Dutch-speaking populations.
How many patients can be pre-screened per week?
We deliberately cap pre-screening at 200 patients per study per week to protect call quality.
Can PCRA Caribbean support studies at sites outside its own network?
Yes. Every service on this page is available standalone for your own sites — hospital, community, and private.
How quickly are safety events escalated?
Safety events and potential serious breaches are escalated to your pharmacovigilance team within 12 hours, with a full audit trail. A 24/7 code-break line supports emergency unblinding.
Tell us what your study needs.
From a single feasibility count to a full participant-support package, we'll scope it quickly and quote it clearly.