A good use of time? Providing evidence for how effort is invested in primary and secondary outcome data collection in trials

Abstract Background Data collection is a substantial part of trial workload for participants and staff alike. How these hours of work are spent is important because stakeholders are more interested in some outcomes than others. The ORINOCO study compared the time spent collecting primary outcome dat...

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Published in:	Trials
Main Authors:	Heidi Gardner, Adel Elfeky, David Pickles, Annabel Dawson, Katie Gillies, Violet Warwick, Shaun Treweek
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2022-12-01
Subjects:	Randomised trials Data collection Outcomes Core outcome sets Research waste
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06973-8

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