Design, Analyze, Communicate: Working together to improve clinical study outcomes.
One of the most common reasons for a clinical study to not end informatively is a failure to recruit the number of participants required to achieve an adequate sample size. This represents a large lost investment—and more importantly a betrayal of the trust of participants that their time and the risks they took would contribute to meaningful progress.
One way to address this problem is to develop a comprehensive recruitment plan: a centralized, documented strategy and an established method for training and managing recruiters. This template resulted from extensive literature searches as well as consultation with recruitment experts in sub-Saharan Africa to increase the likelihood that it meets the immediate needs of those implementing studies.
Template DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MW5YA
