Digital tools for the recruitment and retention of participants in randomised controlled trials: a systematic map

Abstract Background Recruiting and retaining participants in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is challenging. Digital tools, such as social media, data mining, email or text-messaging, could improve recruitment or retention, but an overview of this research area is lacking. We aimed to systematic...

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Main Authors: Geoff K. Frampton, Jonathan Shepherd, Karen Pickett, Gareth Griffiths, Jeremy C. Wyatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-020-04358-3