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Bah humbug! Association between sending Christmas cards to trial participants and trial retention: randomised study within a trial conducted simultaneously across eight host trials

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of sending Christmas cards to participants in randomised controlled trials to increase retention rate at follow-ups, and to explore the feasibility of doing a study within a trial (SWAT) across multiple host trials simultaneously. DESIGN: Randomised SWAT co...

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Autores principales:	Coleman, Elizabeth, Arundel, Catherine, Clark, Laura, Doherty, Laura, Gillies, Katie, Hewitt, Catherine, Innes, Karen, Parker, Adwoa, Torgerson, David, Treweek, Shaun
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2021
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8669570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34906985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067742

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