Head to head
ThreeWire vs Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Site execution versus full-service program.
ThreeWire
Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Model
ThreeWire
Patient recruitment agencyBlue Chip Patient Recruitment
Patient recruitment agencyIn one line
ThreeWire
Long-established recruitment shop with a site-support emphasis.Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Full-service recruitment and retention, part of a larger marketing group.What they do
ThreeWire
Combines outreach with hands-on site support: referral follow-up, chart review support, and helping sites convert referrals rather than only generating them. Notable presence in medical device and cardiovascular studies.Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Delivers study branding, patient outreach, site materials, and retention as an integrated program, backed by the resources of a larger healthcare marketing organization.Pricing
ThreeWire
Service-based, usually scoped per site and per activity.Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Program-based, scoped per study.Strengths
ThreeWire
- Sells site-side execution, not only lead generation
- Publicly references device and procedure-based trial work
- Long operating history
Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
- Breadth of services under one contract
- Established relationships across large pharma
Watch for
ThreeWire
- Ask what share of a typical program is digital versus field-based, and how that matches your population
- Ask how the site-by-site model scales across a large site footprint and what it costs per added site
Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
- Bundled scopes make per-patient economics hard to read — ask for the breakdown
Best for
ThreeWire
Device and procedural studies where site conversion is the bottleneck.Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Sponsors consolidating recruitment and retention with one vendor.Poor fit
ThreeWire
Sponsors who mainly need cheap top-of-funnel volume.Blue Chip Patient Recruitment
Teams that want a narrow, measurable, single-channel test.Read more
ThreeWire
Full ThreeWire profileBlue Chip Patient Recruitment
Full Blue Chip Patient Recruitment profileWhen ThreeWire is the right call
Pick ThreeWire when your sites need hands-on help converting referrals rather than another lead source.
When Blue Chip Patient Recruitment is the right call
Pick Blue Chip when you want a single partner running the whole recruitment program, strategy through site support.
How to actually decide
Ask what share of a typical engagement is digital versus field-based and how the model scales across your site footprint per added site. If you have twelve sites and three are failing, a targeted site-execution engagement is usually cheaper and faster than re-procuring the entire program.
Do not pick on capability decks. Give both the same brief — your protocol, your countries, your screen failure assumptions — and ask each for the referral-to- randomization ratio they achieved on the three most similar studies they have run. Then price both on cost per randomized patient. The comparison usually resolves itself at that point, and often reveals that neither is the problem: the enrollment assumptions in the protocol were wrong from the start.
Our sister publication Rock Enroll covers that diagnosis in depth for sponsors and CRO teams.