Clear obstacles and hidden challenges: Understanding recruiter perspectives in six pragmatic randomised controlled trials

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Donovan, Jenny L ^a   Paramasivan, Sangeetha ^a   de Salis, Isabel ^a   Toerien, Merran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equipoise; Qualitative research; Randomised controlled trials; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EQUIPOISE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSE; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIST; STAFF; SYNTHESIS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; EMOTIONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRAGMATIC CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84891548740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-5     Document Type: Article

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