Recruitment of trial participants through electronic medical record patient portal messaging: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aim

Cost-efficient methods are essential for successful participant recruitment in clinical trials. Patient portal messages are an emerging means of recruiting potentially eligible patients into trials. We assessed the response rate and complaint rate from direct-to-patient, targeted recruitment through patient portals of an electronic medical record for a clinical trial, and compared response rates by differences in message content.

Methods

The Study to Understand Fall Reduction and Vitamin D in You (STURDY) trial is a National Institutes of Health-sponsored, community-based study of vitamin D supplementation for fall prevention in older adults conducted at Johns Hopkins. Potential participants were identified using the Epic electronic medical record at the Johns

SUBMITTER: Plante TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6992491 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature