Key issues in recruitment to randomised controlled trials with very different interventions: a qualitative investigation of recruitment to the SPARE trial (CRUK/07/011)
Open Access
- 15 March 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Trials
- Vol. 12 (1), 78
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-78
Abstract
Recruitment to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with very different treatment arms is often difficult. The ProtecT (Prostate testing for cancer and Treatment) study successfully used qualitative research methods to improve recruitment and these methods were replicated in five other RCTs facing recruitment difficulties. A similar qualitative recruitment investigation was undertaken in the SPARE (Selective bladder Preservation Against Radical Excision) feasibility study to explore reasons for low recruitment and attempt to improve recruitment rates by implementing changes suggested by qualitative findings.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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