Journal article
Prospectively screening for eligible patients was inaccurate in predicting patient recruitment of orthopedic randomized trials
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the accuracy of estimates of potential recruitment from a prospective 8-week screening study compared with a retrospective chart review across sites participating in two fracture management trials.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: During the planning phase of two large, multicenter, randomized controlled fracture management trials, 74 clinical sites provided estimates of the annual recruitment rate both retrospectively (based on …
Authors
Kooistra BW; Dijkman BG; Guyatt GH; Sprague S; Tornetta P; Bhandari M
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 537–542
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.05.002
ISSN
0895-4356