Database recruitment: a solution to poor recruitment in randomized trials?

Database recruitment: a solution to poor recruitment in randomized trials?

BACKGROUND Achieving sample size is imperative to obtaining sufficient power to detect potential effects in health care research, yet many research studies are prone to under-recruitment. Not only does this create problems with power but also it contributes to research extensions, additional costs and delayed results. To combat this problem, one increasingly used technique is database recruitme...

E-recruitment in Iran

Abstract In recent years, the practice of using corporate websites to recruit job applicants has increased steadily. The aim of this paper is to review and analyze the E- recruitment in Iran. in this article, we examine e-recruitment situation in premier 100 Iranian organizations through websites content analysis. These top 100 organizations were introduced by the IMI in 1390. This ranking is ...

Exploring treatment preferences facilitated recruitment to randomized controlled trials

OBJECTIVE To explore how patients' treatment preferences were expressed and justified during recruitment to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and how they influenced participation and treatment decisions. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative analysis of audio recordings of recruitment appointments with 93 participants aged 51-70 years in a UK multicenter RCT of localized prostate cancer tre...

Therapeutic beneficence and patient recruitment in randomized controlled clinical trials.

A model for employer’s decision for recruitment

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of this decision and how it relates to wage setting and the provision of general training. The theoretical framework is a promotion tournament involving M competing firms with heterogeneous productivities, two-level job hierarchies, and a fixed number of managerial positions. This paper also considers an alternative model based on variati...