This trial used the database method of recruitment and recruited its sample size on time.
The surveys performed in Belgium, Iran and China had a comparable method of recruitment: they recruited entire school classes via a random, stratified cluster sampling.
The judgement should be based on both the method of recruitment and the characteristics of those recruited.
Our participants were volunteers recruited from the community, which is a common method of recruitment for trials of non-drug conservative interventions in knee osteoarthritis.
I was very clear in the speech that I did at the event last Tuesday that we are not talking about this as a method of recruitment into the armed services.
This system gradually became the major method of recruitment into the bureaucracy; by the end of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocracy was destroyed, and its power was taken by the scholar-gentry, who staffed the bureaucracy.
Design: Information regarding the method of recruitment was collected for each individual who responded to an advertisement and completed an interviewer-administered telephone screening.
The method of recruitment has been previously described [14].
However, the overrepresentation of women attending university college possibly limits generalization of these findings, and may be influenced by the method of recruitment.
*Stratified by sex, method of recruitment, and region of residence.
Figure 1 shows the method of recruitment of practices.
