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Short report: How often do UK primary care trials face recruitment delays?
Abstract
Recruitment to trials is often viewed as problematic but data are scarce. This study surveyed authors of published primary care trials to assess the scale of recruitment problems. Seventy trial authors were surveyed with a response rate of 56%. Less than one-third of trials recruited to their original timescale. Recruitment requiring GPs to gain patient consent was significantly associated with recruitment problems. The data may be useful in the wider drive to improve recruitment in primary care.
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“The recruitment percentage also compares rather favorably to trial recruitment in primary care, which can be problematic in terms of duration and numbers of participants recruited as compared to the planned recruitment time and numbers of participants [56].”
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- Fairhurst K, Dowrick C. Problems with recruitment in a randomised controlled trial of counselling in general practice: causes and implications. J Health Serv Res Policy 1996; 1: 77-80.
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- Authors
- Bower, P., Wilson, S., & Mathers, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- ORCID
- Bower, P.
- Venue
- Family Practice
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-11-13
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 601-603
- ISSN
- 0263-2136 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2229
- OpenAlex
- W2131015924
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 4.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Family Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Keywords
- trial recruitment, general practitioners, patient consent
- MeSH terms
- Data Collection, United Kingdom, Humans, Time Factors, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Patient Selection
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