Trials within trials? Researcher, funder and ethical perspectives on the practicality and acceptability of nesting trials of recruitment methods in existing primary care trials

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Graffy, Jonathan ^a,c   Bower, Peter ^b   Ward, Elaine ^c   Wallace, Paul ^c   Delaney, Brendan ^d   Kinmonth, Ann Louise ^a   Collier, David ^e   Miller, Julia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Primary Care Research Network   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONNEL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951614816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-38     Document Type: Article

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