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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Editorial

Digital tools for trial recruitment and retention—plenty of tools but rigorous evaluation is in short supply

Authors: Shaun Treweek, Matthias Briel

Published in: Trials | Issue 1/2020

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Excerpt

Once upon a time checking the weather meant looking out of the window. Now we look at our phones. We bank online, plan holidays online, send our holiday snaps to friends while we are still on holiday using Facebook and WhatsApp and the shop of choice for well, just about anything, is the internet. Can’t find it locally? No worry—go online. Digital is the new black. …
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Title
Digital tools for trial recruitment and retention—plenty of tools but rigorous evaluation is in short supply
Authors
Shaun Treweek
Matthias Briel
Publication date
01-12-2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Trials / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04361-8

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