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Galli, Leandro, Knight, Rosemary, Robertson, Steven, Hoile, Elizabeth, Oladapo, Olubukola, Francis, David and Free, Caroline (2014) Using marketing theory to inform strategies for recruitment : a recruitment optimisation model and the txt2stop experience. Trials, Volume 15 (Number 1). Article number 182. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-15-182
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-182
Abstract
Background:
Recruitment is a major challenge for many trials; just over half reach their targets and almost a third resort to grant extensions. The economic and societal implications of this shortcoming are significant. Yet, we have a limited understanding of the processes that increase the probability that recruitment targets will be achieved. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to bring analytical rigour to the task of improving recruitment, thereby increasing the likelihood that trials reach their recruitment targets. This paper presents a conceptual framework that can be used to improve recruitment to clinical trials.
Methods:
Using a case-study approach, we reviewed the range of initiatives that had been undertaken to improve recruitment in the txt2stop trial using qualitative (semi-structured interviews with the principal investigator) and quantitative (recruitment) data analysis. Later, the txt2stop recruitment practices were compared to a previous model of marketing a trial and to key constructs in social marketing theory.
Results:
Post hoc, we developed a recruitment optimisation model to serve as a conceptual framework to improve recruitment to clinical trials. A core premise of the model is that improving recruitment needs to be an iterative, learning process. The model describes three essential activities: i) recruitment phase monitoring, ii) marketing research, and iii) the evaluation of current performance. We describe the initiatives undertaken by the txt2stop trial and the results achieved, as an example of the use of the model.
Conclusions:
Further research should explore the impact of adopting the recruitment optimisation model when applied to other trials.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Employees -- Recruiting , Social marketing, Corporate turnarounds | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Trials | ||||
| Publisher: | Biomed Central | ||||
| ISSN: | 1745-6215 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 15 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||
| Article Number: | Article number 182 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/1745-6215-15-182 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Funder: | Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC) |
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