He suggested providing students at schools being reinvented with vouchers for private schools or preference for enrollment at more successful public schools.
Results from the hypothetical patient enrollment scenarios are consistent with preferences for shorter trials and concerns about funding noted above.
As it happens, a well-designed program of socioeconomic preference also increases minority enrollment.
Even within clinics, there may be differences in patient participation and enrollment, depending on physician and patient preference, thereby possibly skewing the population characteristics.
Both briefs asserted that programs used in California, Texas and Florida that did not use direct racial preferences could achieve greater minority enrollment.
Information on race, ethnicity, and language preference is collected at health plan enrollment, as well as during inpatient and outpatient medical visits.
But in states prohibiting racial preferences, minority enrollments at selective colleges have shrunk while white students have seen only a trivially small gain in their prospects for admission.
I've written favorably about Wyndham, which markets heavily to female business travelers and which introduced an innovative customer-preference loyalty program called ByRequest whose enrollment has more than tripled to about a million since last June.
The benefits and limitations of research strategies that augment randomization while respecting treatment preference are reviewed including: approaches that enhance enrollment and engagement; pilot testing assumptions about randomization; and partially randomized clinical trials.
We report on our experience for the first 100 families enrolled, including study participation rates, reasons for declining enrollment, assessment of clinical and demographic factors that might impact study enrollment, and preferences of parents for participation in optional genomics study procedures.
