Strategies to improve recruitment to randomised trials
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Strategies 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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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.mr000013.pub6