Session: Recruitment Strategies in Trials
Failure to recruit adequate numbers of
participants to randomised trials can lead to equivocal results or
premature termination of the trial. This has implications for
participants, funders and researchers. Recruitment to RCTs is
complex. Reviews have highlighted delays in start-up for a
significant number of trials, and poor recruitment (McDonald, 2006,
Bower 2007). Factors from trial design, clinician and participant
requirements, through to consent and follow-up procedures may
influence recruitment.
Aims
-review the methodological approaches that
have been tested to improve recruitment to randomised trials
- make recommendations on the future research
directions on innovative new strategies for enhancing recruitment
to randomised trials
Oral Presentations
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Recruitment
to trials - why is it hard and how might we make it less
so?
Rates of
practice and patient recruitment: preliminary results from the
DDELPHI study
Investigating
strategies to improve attendance at screening for a randomized
trial
What parents
think about being approached about children’s trials, how this
differs from what practitioners expect, and what this tells us
about enhancing recruitment
Exploring
meaning of participation in a clinical trial in a developing
country setting – implications for recruitment
Improving recruitment to clinical trials with a register of 1M who
agree to the use of their clinical records for research in the
Scottish Health Research Register
FARSITE:
evaluation of an automated trial feasibility assessment and
recruitment tool