Evaluating the Efficacy of Providers’ Compensation Contracts in Improving Participant Retention for Clinical Studies

In this work, we aim to analyze a clinical study sponsor’s decisions regarding monetary payments to participants and compensation for providers (investigators and coordinators) for their efforts to improve participant retention in the study. To this end, we first consider a centralized model where the sponsor decides the monetary payments to participants and the providers’ efforts. We then identify the optimal contracts for the providers under the two decentralized team structures: the sponsor-i