Patient recruitment by neurological registries.

BACKGROUND Clinical registries capture patient information contingent upon successful recruitment and retention of patients who will consent to participation. To accomplish this requires the elements that affect patient recruitment. For example, failure to adequately engage physicians or other healthcare professionals can have as much impact on recruitment success as failure to adequately identify the patients relevant to the purposes of the registry. A strategy for recruitment that is not properly targeted to relevant patients will fail to provide desired information.