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Strategies to improve recruitment to research studies
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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 (The Cochrane Library (online) Issue 1 2008) (searched 20 February 2008); MEDLINE, Ovid (1950 to date ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Government Health Directorates
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons, Ltd Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Journal website
- Volume:
- 2011
- Issue:
- 10
- Article number:
- MR000013
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
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1469-493X
- Source identifiers:
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449490
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- English
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pubs:449490
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uuid:39ffd686-2125-4b14-a2d2-80de7e386600
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- pubs:449490
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- 2015-12-01
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- Copyright holder:
- The Cochrane Collaboration
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
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This review is published as a Cochrane Review in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011, Issue 10. Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to comments and criticisms, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews should be consulted for the most recent version of the Review.
Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Citation: Treweek S, Mitchell E, Pitkethly M, Cook J, Kjeldstrøm M, Johansen M, Taskila TK, Sullivan F, Wilson S, Jackson C, Jones R, Lockhart P. Strategies to improve recruitment to randomised controlled trials. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 4. Art. No.: MR000013. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.MR000013.pub5. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.MR000013.pub5.
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