Use of electronic recruitment methods in a clinical trial of adults with gout.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Electronic-based recruitment methods are increasingly utilized in clinical trials to recruit and enroll research participants. The cost-effectiveness of electronic-based methods and impact on sample generalizability is unknown. We compared recruitment yields, cost-effectiveness, and demographic characteristics across several electronic and traditional recruitment methods.

Methods

We analyzed data from the diet gout trial recruitment campaign. The diet gout trial was a randomized, controlled, cross-over trial that examined the effects of a dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH)-like diet on uric acid levels in adults with gout. We used four electronic medical record and four non-electronic medical record-based recruitment methods to identify and recrui

SUBMITTER: Miller HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878277 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature