SWAT-1: The effectiveness of a 'site visit' intervention on recruitment rates in a multi-centre randomised trial

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Smith, Valerie ^a,c   Clarke, Mike ^b   Begley, Cecily ^a   Devane, Declan ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

multi centre randomised trials; Study Within A Trial; SWAT 1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; IRELAND; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; STUDY DESIGN; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART AUSCULTATION; LABOR ONSET; MULTICENTER STUDY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONNEL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR;

CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; IRELAND; LABOR ONSET; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84934961587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-0732-z     Document Type: Article

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