#CochraneDaily On #Red4Research Day, there are several Cochrane Reviews of interventions to help people to join and stay in randomised trials. Go to CochraneLibrary.com and search "recruitment or retention and trials" in title, to find them #RCT #CochraneReviews
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It's #Red4Research Day!
Thanks to all those who support health and social care research!
Some resources to help make research more informative and relevant are available at www.trialforge.org
We have just created a library of participant information leaflets for trials, over 200, if you are looking for inspiration.
Check out:
www.trialforge.org/excelsior-pi...
The is part of EXCELSIOR, a project ed by Frances Shiely at Cork University.
Tolerating bad health research (part 2):
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
In summary, after risk of bias reassessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials, there were still as many bad trials (55%) but trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%.
Not very reassuring really.
The 6 core items of the new risk of bias tool. Also in paper at the link.
Here's a new risk of bias tool for systematic reviews: ROBUST-RCT
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Similar to an older Cochrane risk of bias tool, it looks like something that could actually be used, which is great. The team explicitly aimed to balance simplicity and methodological rigour.
Figure 3 from the paper, which gives the eight themes identified in the review.
Here's an interesting rapid review on strategies to enhance the ethnic diversity of breast cancer clinical drug trials. It gives some trial recruitment and retention recommendations too.
www.academia.edu/2998-7741/1/...
A new publication on the involvement of ethnic minority people in health and social care research priority setting from around the world.
In summary, very few countries reported the involvement of ethnic minority community members in research priority-setting.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper exploring measuring #environmental impact of #health interventions - we found diversity in outcomes, measures, & analysis. Limited involvement of interested parties.
Absolutely essential to do better and reach consensus on what's important to measure
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Do you work in the field of clinical trials?
Please consider taking part in a Aberdeen-led survey that explores the practices of sharing recruitment and/ or retention rates with recruiting sites as a method to improve recruitment and/or retention behaviours.
forms.office.com/e/9RCxiiCXM2.
Screen shot of the webpage that the link in the message takes you to.
If you are interested in making randomised trials more inclusive there's a lot of material on the Trial Forge site:
www.trialforge.org/improving-tr...
..and it's also worth looking at STEP UP:
step-up-clinical-trials.co.uk
Screenshot of the SWAT resources page available at the link
If you are interested in Studies Within a Trial (SWATs) as a way of improving trial processes such as recruitment and retention, have a look at the searchable collection of SWAT protocols and resources at:
www.trialforge.org/swat-resourc...