Updated systematic review identifies substantial number of retention strategies: Using more strategies retains more study participants

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1481-1487

  Robinson, Karen A ^a   Dinglas, Victor D ^a   Sukrithan, Vineeth ^a   Yalamanchilli, Ramakrishna ^a   Mendez Tellez, Pedro A ^a   Dennison Himmelfarb, Cheryl ^b   Needham, Dale M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Follow up studies; In person follow up; Methods; Retention strategies; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONEY; PARTICIPANT RETENTION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; REWARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FOLLOW UP; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT DROPOUT; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948665134     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.04.013     Document Type: Review

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