A questionnaire-based survey of participants' decisions regarding recruitment and retention in a randomised controlled trial - Lessons learnt from the SCoRD trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-368

  Jerosch Herold, Christina ^a   Shepstone, Lee ^a   Vaughan, Susan ^a   Barrett, Bett ^a   Larson, Debbie ^b   Chojnowski, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Recruitment; Retention; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLANNING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SPLINT; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPLINTS;

EID: 79953031018     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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