Retaining trial participants: an individualised approach is needed.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The financial impact of participant attrition from randomised trials: a case-study from the Occupational Therapist Intervention Study (OTIS).Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025
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2. Recruiting and retaining healthcare workers in Scotland to a longitudinal COVID-19 study: a descriptive analysis.BMC medical research methodology · 2024
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3. How do trial teams plan for retention during the design stage of the trial? A scoping review.Trials · 2023
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  Retaining trial participants takes more than a Christmas card.2021

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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