Experiences of recruiting to a pilot trial of Cardiac Rehabilitation In patients with Bowel cancer (CRIB) with an embedded process evaluation: Lessons learned to improve recruitment

Pilot and Feasibility Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hubbard, Gill ^a   Campbell, Anna ^b   Davies, Zoe ^c   Munro, Julie ^a   Ireland, Aileen V ^a   Leslie, Stephen ^d   Watson, Angus J M ^d,e   Treweek, Shaun ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^d RAIGMORE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NHS HIGHLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer survivorship; Colorectal cancer; Complex intervention; Pilot trial; Pragmatic intervention; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977967126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20555784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-015-0009-z     Document Type: Article

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