Use Cases and What We Help With
From clinical research to clinical trials and on through commercialization, Quest Diagnostics can help support any stage of your initiatives, from development of a new therapeutic solution to post-market/Phase IV clinical studies.


For clinical development, researchers, and commercial pharma
Using Quest’s 60+ billion laboratory results, we can help you leverage our third-party, partner, national, and client data to look at:
- Referral patterns
- Longitudinal considerations
- Geographical considerations
- Diagnostic codes at time of order
- Insights into physician treatment behaviors
- Co-morbidities
- Creation of condition profiles
- Stratification of patient conditions
- Complementary Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) data and filling in gaps with deidentified data
Our integrated approach to data analysis and reporting helps organizations to:
- Create cohorts for retrospective and prospective studies
- Provide insights into the effectiveness of surveillance programs
- Target populations for intervention programs
- Combine de-identified data sets and subset patient populations
- Evaluate disease transmission across jurisdictions

For clinical trials—CROs and sponsors
At Quest, we’re unlocking the future of patient-centered trials, with a commitment to developing innovative solutions and relationships that can help accelerate the time to market for new therapeutics.
Site Validation/Trial Logistics
- Based on inclusion/exclusion criteria, we validate and match potential patient volumes to sites and investigators
- We identify additional physicians with concentrations of potential patients
- Our direct-to-patient trials leverage in-home, self-administered testing and mobile-care teams, who can administer therapeutics, collect samples, and capture biometric data
- Quest Patient Service Centers serve as potential screening sites and interim checkpoints
- We also provide Virtual Principal Investigators (PIs) or sub-PIs
Patient Enrollment and Patient-centered Recruitment
- With Direct Patient Screening, we leverage identified patient relationships by reaching out to potential patients who have opted in and match study criteria
- We further qualify patients with study-specific screening questions via study websites
- We pass prequalified referrals to study sites for follow-up and enrollment
- We rely on enriched, identified data sets and advanced cohort analytics
- Our enrollment and retention derives from experienced-based outreach
Physician Outreach
- Leverage our connection to physicians to help reach those with potential patients
- Let us facilitate study screening and enrollment for targeted populations of physician’s patients
- We can connect your investigators with the nearby physician community
Put Quest Pharma Solutions to work for you