Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32685133›Full record

SynthesisF1000Research2020

A systematic review of non-randomised evaluations of strategies to improve participant recruitment to randomised controlled trials.

Heidi R Gardner, Loai Albarquoni, Adel El Feky, Katie Gillies, Shaun Treweek

Abstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
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

5 authors.

Heidi R GardnerHealth Services Research Unit, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB25 2ZD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2796-6898
Loai AlbarquoniInstitute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Adel El FekyHealth Services Research Unit, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB25 2ZD, UK.
Katie GilliesHealth Services Research Unit, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB25 2ZD, UK.
Shaun TreweekHealth Services Research Unit, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB25 2ZD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7239-7241

Funding

Chief Scientist Office HSRU1Medical Research Council MR/L01193X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Patient SelectionRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicResearch DesignHumansSample SizeClinical trialParticipant recruitmentParticipant selectionRecruitment interventionsRecruitment strategies

Identifiers

PMID32685133
PMCPMC7336048

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.