Successful recruitment methods in the community for a two-site clinical trial

Abstract

Effective screening and recruitment are essential to the success of randomized clinical trials. This report is to describe key screening and recruitment strategies in a two site randomized clinical trial (RCT) conducted in community settings with a vulnerable chronically ill population and to suggest valuable approaches when planning trials. Differences between sites in a complex study with two considerably different environments (academic versus home care) and their participant pools presented challenges which required different screening and recruitment methods. A high level of communication between sites, creative problem solving and the ability to be flexible when problems were encountered were needed for successful screening and recruitment.

Exploring relationships of catheter‐associated urinary tract infection and blockage in people with long‐term indwelling urinary catheters

“…Obtaining large samples for such research is challenging (Fairbanks et al . ) and it likely would require multiple sites research.…”