Recruitment of patients for a clinical trial: Factors on the physician side and reasons on the patient side

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 511-514

  Fukui, Tsuguya ^a   Rahman, Mahbubur ^a   Shimbo, Takuro ^b   Morita, Satoshi ^c   Sakamoto, Junichi ^b  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Patient recruitment; Physician participation; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33646785774     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1269     Document Type: Article

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