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Published in: Trials 2/2015

01-12-2015 | Poster presentation

Do trial managers know when sites will fail to recruit? Preliminary results from the estimating site performance (ESP) study

Authors: Kirsty Shearer, Hanne Bruhn, Anne Duncan, Seonaidh Cotton, Shaun Treweek

Published in: Trials | Special Issue 2/2015

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A substantial investment of public money is made each year to fund large multicentre clinical trials. Around half will not recruit to target and require extensions, revised sample size targets or will be closed leaving the clinical question unanswered. For multicentre trials, a great amount of time, effort and cost is spent setting up clinical sites. One potential reason why a trial may fail to deliver is that some sites fail to fulfil their predicted recruitment potential. The ESP study explores whether there is a good (and simple) way of making informed decisions about which sites are worth investing scarce trial team resources. …
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Title
Do trial managers know when sites will fail to recruit? Preliminary results from the estimating site performance (ESP) study
Authors
Kirsty Shearer
Hanne Bruhn
Anne Duncan
Seonaidh Cotton
Shaun Treweek
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Trials / Issue Special Issue 2/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-16-S2-P182

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