Designing and using incentives to support recruitment and retention in clinical trials: a scoping review and a checklist for design

B Parkinson, R Meacock, M Sutton, E Fichera, N Mills… - Trials, 2019 - Springer
Background Recruitment and retention of participants are both critical for the success of
trials, yet both remain significant problems. The use of incentives to target participants and …

Recruiting and retaining young adults: what can we learn from behavioural interventions targeting nutrition, physical activity and/or obesity? A systematic review of the …

MC Whatnall, MJ Hutchesson, T Sharkey… - Public Health …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objective: To describe strategies used to recruit and retain young adults in nutrition, physical
activity and/or obesity intervention studies, and quantify the success and efficiency of these …

Exploring reasons for recruitment failure in clinical trials: a qualitative study with clinical trial stakeholders in Switzerland, Germany, and Canada

M Briel, BS Elger, S McLennan, S Schandelmaier… - Trials, 2021 - Springer
Background Poor participant recruitment is the most frequent reason for premature
discontinuation of randomized clinical trials (RCTs), particularly if they are investigator …

Describing the content of trial recruitment interventions using the TIDieR reporting checklist: a systematic methodology review

N Hudek, K Carroll, S Semchishen… - BMC Medical Research …, 2024 - Springer
Background Recruiting participants to clinical trials is an ongoing challenge, and relatively
little is known about what recruitment strategies lead to better recruitment. Recruitment …

A systematic review describes models for recruitment prediction at the design stage of a clinical trial

E Gkioni, R Rius, S Dodd, C Gamble - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Patient recruitment in clinical trials is challenging with failure to recruit to time and
target sample size common. This may be caused by unanticipated problems or by …

Development of a new adapted QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI-Two) for rapid application to RCTs underway with enrolment shortfalls—to identify previously …

JL Donovan, M Jepson, L Rooshenas, S Paramasivan… - Trials, 2022 - Springer
Background Many randomised controlled trials (RCTs) struggle to recruit, despite valiant
efforts. The QRI (QuinteT Recruitment Intervention) uses innovative research methods to …

Open information extraction for knowledge graph construction

I Muhammad, A Kearney, C Gamble, F Coenen… - Database and Expert …, 2020 - Springer
An open information extraction approach for knowledge graph construction is presented.
The motivation for the work is that large quantities of scholarly documents are available …

The effect of personalised versus non-personalised study invitations on recruitment within the ENGAGE feasibility trial: an embedded randomised controlled …

E Thiblin, J Woodford, M Öhman… - BMC medical research …, 2022 - Springer
Background Recruitment into clinical trials is challenging and there is a lack of evidence on
effective recruitment strategies. Personalisation of invitation letters is a potentially pragmatic …

Examining the language demands of informed consent documents in patient recruitment to cancer trials using tools from corpus and computational linguistics

T Isaacs, J Murdoch, Z Demjén, F Stevenson - Health, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Obtaining informed consent (IC) is an ethical imperative, signifying participants'
understanding of the conditions and implications of research participation. One setting …

Developing an online, searchable database to systematically map and organise current literature on retention research (ORRCA2)

A Kearney, PA Ashford, L Butlin, T Conway… - Clinical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Addressing recruitment and retention challenges in trials is a key priority for
methods research, but navigating the literature is difficult and time-consuming. In 2016 …