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Site visits to initiate recruitment in a clinical trial: Does it matter who conducts the visit? Protocol for implementation in trials

Nollett, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6676-4933, Kelson, Mark James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7744-3780 and Hood, Kerenza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-8631 2016. Site visits to initiate recruitment in a clinical trial: Does it matter who conducts the visit? Protocol for implementation in trials. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 9 (4) , pp. 225-227. 10.1111/jebm.12212

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Abstract

The Study Within A Trial (SWAT) programme exists to ‘embed research within research, so as to resolve uncertainties about the different ways of designing, conducting, analysing and interpreting evaluations of health and social care’ (1). Published in this journal in 2013, a template for the first SWAT protocol outlined an investigation into the effects of site visits by the Principal Investigator on recruitment in multi-centre randomized controlled trials (1). We have now designed a SWAT protocol to extend this question and ask ‘does it matter who conducts the site visit?’ Our aim is to provide a protocol which trials can implement to address this research question.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Randomized controlled trials; recruitment; research design; SWAT; uncertainty
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 1756-5391
Funders: NONE
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 June 2016
Date of Acceptance: 27 June 2016
Last Modified: 04 May 2023 12:29
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/92209

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