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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Developing guidelines for reporting embedded recruitment trials
Authors:
Vichithranie W Madurasinghe, Sandra Eldridge, Gordon Forbes, MRC START team
Published in:
Trials
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Recruitment to clinical trials is problematic with many failing to recruit to target and within time. Embedding recruitment trials within effectiveness trials may provide a successful way to improve this. There are no guidelines for reporting such embedded trials. As part of the Systematic Techniques for Assisting Recruitment to Trials (START) project designed to test interventions to improve recruitment to trials, we developed guidelines for reporting embedded trials. …