Centralized registry for COVID-19 research recruitment: Design, development, implementation, and preliminary results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had substantial global morbidity and mortality. Clinical research related to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19 is a top priority. Effective and efficient recruitment is challenging even without added constraints of a global pandemic. Recruitment registries offer a potential solution to slow or difficult recruitment.

Objectives

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of a digital research recruitment registry to optimize awareness and participant enrollment for COVID-19-related research in Baltimore and to report preliminary results.

Methods

Planning began in March 2020, and the registry launched in July 2020. The primary recruitment mechanisms include electron

SUBMITTER: Peeler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8387691 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature