Journal article
A systematic review of discontinued trials suggested that most reasons for recruitment failure were preventable
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To collect and classify reported reasons for recruitment failure in discontinued randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and to assess reporting quality.
METHODS: We systematically searched MEDLINE and EMBASE (2010-2014) and a previous cohort of RCTs for published RCTs reporting trial discontinuation due to poor recruitment. Teams of two investigators selected eligible RCTs working independently and extracted information using …
Authors
Briel M; Olu KK; von Elm E; Kasenda B; Alturki R; Agarwal A; Bhatnagar N; Schandelmaier S
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 80, , pp. 8–15
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2016
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.07.016
ISSN
0895-4356