Costs of recruiting couples to a clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 423-432

  Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a,b,c   Ko, Celine M ^b,c   Malcarne, Vanessa L ^b,c,d   Banthia, Rajni ^b,c   Gutierrez, Ivan ^b   Varni, James W ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Cost; Couples; Diversity; Dyads; Prostate cancer; Recruitment; Recruitment strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUDGET; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL STAFF; PROSTATE CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUDGETS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPOUSES;

EID: 34248556041     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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