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#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
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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
June 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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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.
Tolerating bad health research (part 2): still as many bad trials, but more good ones too - Trials
Background We previously published a study examining the risk of bias of a random selection of Cochrane systematic reviews. The purpose of our current study is to reassess the risk of bias of a cohort...
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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.
March 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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/...
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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...
Global Insights on the Involvement of Ethnic Minority Populations in Health and Social Care Research Priority Setting: A Systematic Scoping Review - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Background Representing all population groups in health and social care research is essential for generating research relevant to decision making in everyday clinical and social healthcare policy and ...
link.springer.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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...
Measuring the environmental impact of health interventions in randomised controlled trials – a scoping review
Healthcare accounts for 4% of the overall greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing carbon emissions is a key strategic aim for health systems in multiple countries. To achieve this, environmental ...
www.jclinepi.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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.
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
February 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM