Table 3 After 6 years of CeNGEPS activities: overall activity for industry-sponsored clinical research in the French inter-regions

Sites (closed and invoiced)

2192

2057

−6.1

Median inclusion rate (%)

40

57.1

+42.3

Number of included patients

11 837^a

11 740

−0.8

Mean number of patients included/centre

5.6^a

5.7

+1.8

Inclusion rate in sites (closed and invoiced) (%)

63^a

75.6

+20

% of sites with no patients included

26.4

21.3

−19.3

% sites included >80 %

44.8

50.5

+12.7

Median delay to contract signature (days)

76

55

−27.6

% reaching objective of 80 % contracts signed ≤60 days

39.0

53.2

+36.4