Trial reportBMC medical research methodology2015
Personalized contact strategies and predictors of time to survey completion: analysis of two sequential randomized trials.
Trial report in BMC medical research methodology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00719446 (Patient Outcomes 6 and 12 Months After ALTA, OMEGA, EDEN and SAILS ARDS Network Trials), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Patient Outcomes 6 and 12 Months After ALTA, OMEGA, EDEN and SAILS ARDS Network Trials
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Strategies to improve retention in randomised trials.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- A Multi-Modal Mobile Phone-Based Communication Strategy to Maximize Retention in a Post-Intensive Care Follow-up Study of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors.Research square · 2026Article
- Association between unmet medication needs after hospital discharge and readmission or death among acute respiratory failure survivors: the addressing post-intensive care syndrome (APICS-01) multicenter prospective cohort study.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Article
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- Participant retention in trauma intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up studies: a post-hoc analysis of a previous scoping review.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2020Article
- Participant retention practices in longitudinal clinical research studies with high retention rates.BMC medical research methodology · 2017Article
- Resilience in Survivors of Critical Illness in the Context of the Survivors' Experience and Recovery.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2016Article
- Influence of quality of care and individual patient characteristics on quality of life and return to work in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: protocol for a prospective, observational, multi-centre patient cohort study (DACAPO).BMC health services research · 2015Observational
- A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Primary Care Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring Quality Improvement Pilot.Journal of primary care & community healthObservational
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Abstract
backgroundEffective strategies for contacting and recruiting study participants are critical in conducting clinical research. In this study, we conducted two sequential randomized controlled trials of mail- and telephone-based strategies for contacting and recruiting participants, and evaluated participant-related variables' association with time to survey completion and survey completion rates. Subjects eligible for this study were survivors of acute lung injury who had been previously enrolled in a 12-month observational follow-up study evaluating their physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes, with their last study visit completed at a median of 34 months previously.
methodsEligible subjects were contacted to complete a new research survey as part of two randomized trials, initially using a randomized mail-based contact strategy, followed by a randomized telephone-based contact strategy for non-responders to the mail strategy. Both strategies focused on using either a personalized versus a generic approach. In addition, 18 potentially relevant subject-related variables (e.g., demographics, last known physical and mental health status) were evaluated for association with time to survey completion.
resultsOf 308 eligible subjects, 67% completed the survey with a median (IQR) of 3 (2, 5) contact attempts required. There was no significant difference in the time to survey completion for either randomized trial of mail- or phone-based contact strategy. Among all subject-related variables, age ≤40 years and minority race were independently associated with a longer time to survey completion.
conclusionWe found that age ≤40 years and minority race were associated with a longer time to survey completion, but personalized versus generic approaches to mail- and telephone-based contact strategies had no significant effect. Repeating both mail and telephone contact attempts was important for increasing survey completion rate.
trial registrationNCT00719446.
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