Recruitment methods in Alzheimer's disease research: General practice versus population based screening by mail

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Andersen, Fred ^a   Engstad, Torgeir A ^b   Straume, Bjørn ^a   Viitanen, Matti ^c,d   Halvorsen, Dag S ^b   Hykkerud, Samuel ^b   Sjøbrend, Kjell ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e Vefsn Health Centre   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77953098372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-35     Document Type: Article

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