Recruitment barriers in a randomized controlled trial from the physicians' perspective - A postal survey

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Spaar, Anne ^a   Frey, Martin ^b   Turk, Alexander ^c   Karrer, Werner ^d   Puhan, Milo A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Klinik Barmelweid   (Switzerland)

^c Zuercher Hoehenklinik Wald ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Luzerner Hoehenklinik   (Switzerland)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 62149117200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-14     Document Type: Article

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