منابع مشابه
Recruitment to randomised studies.
MAINTAINING ADEQUATE and consistent accrual of patients is important for small clinical trials and crucial to large multicentre, multinational clinical trials, in which participants often number in the thousands. Trial recruitment that is slower than expected can result in prolonged trial durations, increased costs, uneven workload, and morale problems, both for trial participants and trialists...
متن کاملStrategies to improve recruitment to randomised controlled trials.
BACKGROUND Recruiting participants to trials can be extremely difficult. Identifying strategies that improve trial recruitment would benefit both trialists and health research. OBJECTIVES To quantify the effects of strategies to improve recruitment of participants to randomised controlled trials. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Methodology Review Group Specialised Register - CMR (T...
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BACKGROUND Recruitment of participants into randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is critical for successful trial conduct. Although there have been two previous systematic reviews on related topics, the results (which identified specific interventions) were inconclusive and not generalizable. The aim of our study was to evaluate the relative effectiveness of recruitment strategies for participat...
متن کاملIncreasing recruitment to randomised trials: a review of randomised controlled trials
BACKGROUND Poor recruitment to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is a widespread and important problem. With poor recruitment being such an important issue with respect to the conduct of randomised trials, a systematic review of controlled trials on recruitment methods was undertaken in order to identify strategies that are effective. METHODS We searched the register of trials in Cochrane l...
متن کاملA protocol for a systematic review of non-randomised evaluations of strategies to improve participant recruitment to randomised controlled trials
BACKGROUND Randomised controlled trials guard against selection bias and therefore offer the fairest way of evaluating healthcare interventions such as medicinal products, devices and services. Recruitment to trials can be extremely difficult, and poor recruitment can lead to extensions to both time and budget and may result in an underpowered study which does not satisfactorily answer the orig...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05364.x