Recruiting Participants

HMORN Recruitment and Data Collection Guide

This guide is intended to assist researchers with the design and implementation of multi-site studies involving participants from the HMO Research Network (HMORN). Various strategies to optimize recruitment and data collection in a multi-site environment (mail, telephone and web) are addressed in the guide.  Click here to download.

From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit.  www.hmoresearchnetwork.org

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Patient Authorization for Recruitment Form

An example of a form that a patient would sign to allow a physician/clinic to release their contact information to a research team for eligibility screening and enrollment in a project.   Click here to download.

Pace WD, Staton EW, Holcomb S. Practice-based research network studies in the age of HIPAA. Annals of Family Medicine. 2005;3(Suppl 1):S38-S45.  http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/data/3/suppl_1/s38/DC1/2

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CTNBP: Recruitment Tips

One of many resources offered by CTN Best Practices, this handy one-pager offers over a dozen practical tips and ideas for those recruiting patients through clinical practices.   Click here to download.

From Clinical Trials Networks Best Practices (CTNBP) of Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  https://www.ctnbestpractices.org/sites/enrollment

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UCSF Subject Screening Tracking Form

An example of a simple subject screening log that could be easily adapted for a variety of studies.   Click here to download.

From the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.  http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/clinical_research/tools/index.aspx

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What is a Clinical Research Study?

This video, available through CTN Best Practices, introduces terminology and answers questions frequently asked by patients about clinical research studies. Available in formats for those with both high and low speed internet connections.  

From Clinical Trials Networks Best Practices (CTNBP) of Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  https://www.ctnbestpractices.org/edu/whatisastudy/

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CONSORT Recruitment Tracking Flowchart

A nice example of how enrollment can be tracked and reported at each site for randomized trials and intervention studies.   Click here to download.

Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials. Lancet 2001; 357(9263):1191-1194.  http://www.consort-statement.org/consort-statement/flow-diagram/

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