Use of a patient linked data warehouse to facilitate diabetes trial recruitment from primary care

Received 6 May 2009; received in revised form 1 June 2009; accepted 16 June 2009. published online 15 July 2009.

Abstract

Recruitment into clinical trials from primary care may be difficult. Our aim was to use the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank to identify potential participants for two factitious trials. We identified 284 and 711 participants for each study (population=250,086). This method appears promising in identifying trial participants.

Keywords: Diabetes, Clinical trials, SAIL, Recruitment, Primary care

a HIRU (Health Information Research Unit), Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP, UK

b Diabetes Research Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK

c Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology, ABM University NHS Trust, Swansea, Wales, UK

Corresponding author. Tel: +44 01792 704078; fax: +44 01792 703214.

1 These authors contributed equally.

PII: S1751-9918(09)00048-5

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2009.06.004

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