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.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 15, 2009
Accepted:
June 16,
2009
Received in revised form:
June 1,
2009
Received:
May 6,
2009
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