Clinical trials are important, but recruiting and retaining participants is challenging. Fewer than half of trials meet their recruitment goals, leading to wasted time, money, and effort for research teams and participants. Additionally, poor retention, when participants drop out before the study ends, comprises trial outcomes. Recruitment and retention problems therefore delay the identification and implementation of effective new treatments.
The ‘Protocol and resource development for prioritised recruitment and retention strategies’ (PRESS) project aimed to develop protocols, and resources, to assist and encourage trial teams to evaluate the recruitment and retention strategies in their trials, especially those that we have prioritised for evaluation.
We have developed protocols, guidance and other resources for four recruitment and five retention high priority SWATs.
More information about the protocols, and the PRESS project is available here
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This work been a collaboration between Trial Forge and the HRB-TMRN & TMRP
