What is it about?
The aim of this study was to identify successful strategies that study personnel consider to be important in patient recruitment to RCT.
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Why is it important?
Many randomised controlled trials (RCT) fail to meet their recruitment goals. Less than one-third of trials achieved their original recruitment target goal in time. Poor recruitment leads to underpowered studies that do not answer the questions. In the UK finding methods to enhance recruitment in RCTs has been identified as being of the highest priority
Perspectives
I think our study adds to the knowledge of what the study personnel thinks is important. The message of the study in one sentence: Keep it simple, incorporate the research in clinical practice, and study an important question.
Associate Professor Erik Lundström
Uppsala Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Identifying important barriers to recruitment of patients in randomised clinical studies using a questionnaire for study personnel, Trials, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-019-3737-1.
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