Clinical Site Selection: What's Your $64,000 Question?

In the 1950's a popular game show debuted called "The $64,000 Question". Contestants correctly answered of every increasingly difficult question until they reach the big one, "The $64,000 Question", the pinnacle! The questions challenged the brightest minds and $64,000 winners were rare ($578,000 in today's dollars!). Interestingly Dr. Joyce Brothers the sole female winner made it with questions on the topic of boxing suggested as a stunt by the show's producers.

The $64,000 question’ has become part of our vernacular. Like this rugby sports article from February 2016 entitled "Scotland vs England, Six Nations 2016:" https://tinyurl.com/ycs7zt5s

"The $64,000 question as we venture into Six Nations territory is whether he (Dylan Hartley) will be able to summon the self-control which does not always come naturally to him, in the heat of the moment." You hear it regularly.

In clinical trial site selection, what is YOUR $64,000 Question? Is it does the site have patients? Can they really randomize study subjects? Has the PI ever done a study... in his or her life? Are they in it just for the money? And does your $64,000 question change with each site and study? What is the real question that helps you select one site over another?

Think about your $64,000 question. The real bottom line that tells you to pick one site over another. Do you consider your question when you create your feasibility questionnaire?

If you could ask only one question of a potential site, what would be? Put your $64,000 question in the comments below.