Accrual Strategies

Feasibility → Enrollment → Reporting → Leadership Insights

Supporting clinical trial success through feasibility assessment, enrollment performance monitoring, and data-driven reporting.

Why Clinical Trial Accrual Performance Matters

Successful clinical trial accrual helps studies complete on schedule, improves access to innovative therapies, advances scientific discovery, and maximizes research investments.

Study Success Starts Before Activation

Feasibility tools aid in assessing patient availability, estimate enrollment potential, identify potential recruitment challenges, and support budget negotiation decisions. At present, ARO-CT encourages the use of the following existing institutional resources.

Monitor Accrual Performance

Accrual reporting provides timely, standardized insight into clinical trial enrollment performance. Investigators, study teams, and institutional leaders can use these data to identify recruitment challenges, allocate resources effectively, and evaluate research activity across clinical and academic units.

Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trial Accrual Report Dashboard

The Dashboard provides enrollment progress compared with target accrual, study-level performance monitoring, and financial award balance information. In November 2026, a unit-level roll-up will provide performance insights for leadership.

Dashboard Data Sources

Partnering with UAB’s Igniting Data Insights initiative eliminates data silos from OnCore for accrual data and Oracle for a snapshot of award balances.
Who can access the dashboard
- Principal Investigators, Sub-Investigators and Primary Study Coordinators as listed in OnCore
- Oracle Financial Award Managers
- Coming soon – unit leadership
How to access the dashboard
Access requires the use of user BlazerID and password as well as the Duo authorization app.
1. Sign in to my.uab.edu
2. Open the myResearch tab
3. Select Browse Research Reports
4. Search for "Accrual"
Coming Soon: Dashboard Roll-Up Reporting for Leadership

Upcoming enhancements will enable divisions, departments and other units to evaluate accrual performance across areas, providing a broader view of clinical trial activity, enrollment trends, and strategic growth opportunities.

Turning Data into Action: The ARO-CT Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials Accrual Dashboard

As clinical trial research grows in complexity, access to timely, actionable data has become increasingly important for clinical investigators, operational teams, and clinical research administrators. The Academic Research Organization for Clinical Trials (ARO-CT) within the Office of Research was developed through UAB’s Research Strategic Initiative to strengthen clinical trials infrastructure and support. A collaboration between UAB’s Igniting Data Insights (IDI) , a university-wide initiative focused on strengthening data infrastructure and insights for decision making across campus, and the ARO-CT – has resulted in a powerful new resource: the Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials Accrual Dashboard.

Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trial Accruals Report Update

The Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trial Accruals Report continues to develop. The dashboard combines two key aspects of clinical trial management—patient accrual performance and financial award balances—into a user-friendly platform. Together, these metrics help illustrate the relationship between enrollment performance and financial sustainability, emphasizing the importance of realistic study feasibility assessments and ongoing accrual management.

The CCTS Clinical Trials Kiosk is a website created by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). It helps research teams plan, start, run, and report clinical trials. The kiosk brings together tools, guidance, and training materials in one place.

Contact Information

Melissa McBrayer, Director of Accrual Strategies

Academic Research Organization for Clinical Trials

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Last updated: October 14, 2026

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