Clinical Trial Stakeholder Register
This is a practical guide to building a stakeholder register for a clinical trial project — a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them, adapted to the realities of planning and running a clinical trial.
What a Stakeholder Register is
A stakeholder register is a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Stakeholder Register. On a clinical trial project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Clinical Trial project
Clinical Trial projects live or die on planning and running a clinical trial. A well-built stakeholder register gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how clinical trial projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Stakeholder name and role
- Power and interest
- Attitude
- Engagement approach
Clinical Trial-specific considerations
Tailor the stakeholder register to the risks that most often derail clinical trial projects:
- Regulatory and ethics approval
- Patient recruitment
- Data integrity
Example
On a real clinical trial project, the stakeholder register would be shaped by planning and running a clinical trial. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — regulatory and ethics approval, patient recruitment, data integrity — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.