Community-based recruitment of patients with COPD into clinical research.
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SUBMITTER: Brill SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4174139 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
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Community-based recruitment of patients with COPD into clinical research.
Brill Simon E SE El-Emir Ethaar E Allinson James P JP Donaldson Gavin C GC Nazareth Irwin I Wedzicha Jadwiga A JA
Thorax 20140304 10
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Identifying subjects for clinical trials is difficult and the evidence base for recruitment strategies is limited, particularly in the field of COPD. We compared the efficiency and patient characteristics of different community-based recruitment strategies during a non-commercial COPD trial in the UK. Recruiting from general practice COPD registers was less efficient and identified patients with significantly milder disease than recruiting through pulmonary rehabilitation and ...[more]
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