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Trial reportF1000Research2019

Using pens as an incentive for trial recruitment of older adults: An embedded randomised controlled trial.

Katie Whiteside, Lydia Flett, Alex Mitchell, Caroline Fairhurst, Sarah Cockayne, Sara Rodgers, David Torgerson, OTIS Study Group

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in F1000Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Strategies to improve recruitment to randomised trials.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
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  4. Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  5. Strategies to improve retention in randomised trials.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Katie WhitesideYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7610-5429
Lydia FlettYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Alex MitchellYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9311-2092
Caroline FairhurstYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Sarah CockayneYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1288-5497
Sara RodgersYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1757-541X
David TorgersonYork Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1667-4275
OTIS Study Group

Funding

Department of Health HTA/14/49/149
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Accidental FallsMotivationPatient SelectionAgedHumansInformed ConsentMiddle AgedOdds RatioSurveys and QuestionnairesWritingEmbedded TrialIncentivePenRandomised Controlled TrialRecruitment

Identifiers

PMID30984388
PMCPMC6446499

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