Practical application of opt-out recruitment methods in two health services research studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participant recruitment is an ongoing challenge in health research. Recruitment may be especially difficult for studies of access to health care because, even among those who are in care, people using services least often also may be hardest to contact and recruit. Opt-out recruitment methods (in which potential participants are given the opportunity to decline further contact about the study (opt out) following an initial mailing, and are then contacted directly if they have not opted out within a specified period) can be used for such studies. However, there is a dearth of literature on the effort needed for effective opt-out recruitment.

Methods

In this paper we describe opt-out recruitment procedures for two studies on access to health care within the U.S. Dep

SUBMITTER: Miller CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5391553 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature