Database recruitment: A solution to poor recruitment in randomized trials?

Family Practice

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Stuardi, Tracy ^a   Cox, Helen ^a   Torgerson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

EID: 79957485212     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmq108     Document Type: Article

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