Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): developing the science of recruitment
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Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): developing the science of recruitment
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trials
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-s1-o61