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Recruitment Across 10 Screening Centers

Principal Investigator
Name
Lois Lamerato
Institution
Henry Ford Health System
Email
About this CDAS Project
Study
PLCO (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
2006-0164
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Jul 1, 2006
Title
Recruitment Across 10 Screening Centers
Summary
The project is aimed at producing a publication that describes the overall experience of recruitment of 155,000 subjects for the PLCO trial. The goals of this project are to document the challenges and issues associated with large scale clinical trial populations.
Aims

Document the various recruitment methods and strategies used by each of the 10 screening centers Describe the challenges experienced in recruitment and how each center handled. Describe the overall characteristics of the PLCO population across the 10 sites Describe the milestones that occurred during the recruitment process Describe the minority recruitment strategies used at each site

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