Lessons learned in participant recruitment and retention: The EXCITE Trial

Physical Therapy

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1520-1533

  Blanton, Sarah ^a   Morris, David M ^b   Prettyman, Michelle G ^c   McCulloch, Karen ^d   Redmond, Susan ^e   Light, Kathye E ^f   Wolf, Steven L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Informed consent; Randomized clinical trials; Recruitment; Rehabilitation; Research ethics; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33750538407     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060091     Document Type: Review

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