Comparison of Recruitment Efforts Targeted at Primary Care Physicians Versus the Community at Large for Participation in Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials
| Autor: | F. A. Schmitt, Marie Smart, Stephanie J. Freeman, Deborah D. Danner, Greg E. Cooper, Diane Spencer, Roberta Davis, Gregory A. Jicha, Joanna Hudson, William R. Markesbery, Sarah A. Carr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Cost-Benefit Analysis MEDLINE Disease Community Networks Article Alzheimer Disease Intervention (counseling) Humans Medicine Psychiatry Aged Clinical Trials as Topic business.industry Patient Selection Cognitive disorder Physicians Family Middle Aged medicine.disease Clinical trial Outreach Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Potential Study Subject Clinical research Family medicine Education Medical Continuing Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business Gerontology |
| Zdroj: | Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders. 24:165-170 |
| ISSN: | 0893-0341 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/wad.0b013e3181aba927 |
| Popis: | Inefficient and delayed recruitment into clinical trials in Alzheimer disease are major obstacles impeding progress in the discovery of more effective therapeutic strategies to combat this disease. Despite widespread recognition of this problem, limited empirical data demonstrating the effectiveness of specific recruitment strategies are available to guide recruitment endeavors. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of recruitment efforts targeting either the primary care health professionals (PCPs) or patients and families with a community grass-roots outreach event. The primary outcome measure was actual study recruitment and participation in the 4 months postintervention. No research subjects were recruited from the PCP intervention, whereas 69 subjects were recruited into clinical studies from the community grass-roots outreach event activity (0% vs. 28%, P |
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