# Thought leadership

> Guidelines and best practices across clinical trial communications and how to build site relationships that last.

**Published:** Apr 3, 2025  
**Updated:** Apr 28, 2026

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# Thought leadership

Optimize site engagement to accelerate trial performance – with proven best practices and a digital-first approach.

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- **Site engagement assessment**: Score your site engagement performance against leading engagement indicators quantified by our analysis.

- **Communications playbook**: This playbook provides practical steps to implement best practices across clinical trial communications. 

- **Is your protocol really fit for purpose?**: This eBook presents the benefits of digitized protocols and other study information being immediately accessible for sites.

- **Clinical trials working at lightspeed**: This paper explores five ways to increase speed and efficiency of clinical trials, so set a new course for a successful digital protocol!

- **Tufts CSDD report**: Ken Getz  introduces a study in collaboration with Teckro on how and when research site staff reference clinical trial protocols.

- **Tufts CSDD infographic**: View the 2020 infographic capturing feedback from 228 research site staff on how they interact with the protocol.

- **Tufts CSDD analysis**: Companion analysis to the 2020 Tufts CSDD-Teckro collaboration study, broken into three observations from research.