Using registries to recruit subjects for clinical trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-38

  Tan, Meng H ^a   Thomas, Matthew ^b   MacEachern, Mark P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Patient registries; Recruitment of subjects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CANADA; CELIAC DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; NEOPLASM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RARE DISEASE; REGISTER; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SCREENING; SPAIN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84920887545     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.12.012     Document Type: Article

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