Guidelines for reporting embedded recruitment trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recruitment to clinical trials is difficult with many trials failing to recruit to target and within time. Embedding trials of recruitment interventions within host trials may provide a successful way to improve this. There are no guidelines for reporting such embedded methodology trials. As part of the Medical Research Council funded Systematic Techniques for Assisting Recruitment to Trials (MRC START) programme designed to test interventions to improve recruitment to trials, we developed guidelines for reporting embedded trials.

Methods

We followed a three-phase guideline development process: (1) pre-meeting literature review to generate items for the reporting guidelines; (2) face-to-face consensus meetings to draft the reporting guidelines; and (3) post-meetin

SUBMITTER: Madurasinghe VW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4714476 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature