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Open Access 01-11-2013 | Oral presentation

Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): developing the science of recruitment

Authors: Jo Rick, Peter Bower, David Collier, Sandra Eldridge, Jonathan Graffy, Anne Kennedy, Peter Knapp, Adwoa Hughes-Morley, Chris Salisbury, Nicola Small, David Torgerson, Shaun Treweek, Paul Wallace

Published in: Trials | Special Issue 1/2013

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RCTs are critical to evidence-based medicine, but recruitment is routinely problematic. Robust tests of recruitment methods, where alternative approaches are compared within RCTs, are rare. The MRC funded START programme aims to test the feasibility of routinely nesting recruitment interventions in host RCTs. This will rapidly extend the evidence base, allow promising recruitment interventions to be tested across multiple trials, and improve our understanding of the impact of contextual factors on recruitment. …
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Title
Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): developing the science of recruitment
Authors
Jo Rick
Peter Bower
David Collier
Sandra Eldridge
Jonathan Graffy
Anne Kennedy
Peter Knapp
Adwoa Hughes-Morley
Chris Salisbury
Nicola Small
David Torgerson
Shaun Treweek
Paul Wallace
Publication date
01-11-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Trials / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-S1-O61

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