Journal article icon

Journal article

Conveying equipoise during recruitment for clinical trials: Qualitative synthesis of clinicians' practices across six randomised controlled trials.

Abstract:

Background

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evidence-based medicine and increasingly rely on front-line clinicians to recruit eligible patients. Clinicians' difficulties with negotiating equipoise is assumed to undermine recruitment, although these issues have not yet been empirically investigated in the context of observable events. We aimed to investigate how clinicians conveyed equipoise during RCT recruitment appointments across six RCTs, with a view to (...

Expand abstract
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

Actions


Access Document


Publisher copy:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1002147

Authors


More by this author
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-6166-6055
More by this author
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-7329-9574

Contributors

Role:
Editor


Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Journal:
PLoS Medicine More from this journal
Volume:
13
Issue:
10
Pages:
e1002147
Publication date:
2016-10-01
Acceptance date:
2016-09-07
DOI:
EISSN:
1549-1676
ISSN:
1549-1277
Pmid:
27755555

Terms of use



Views and Downloads






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP