Overall, EPIPOI has already proved useful to public health practitioners (trialed at MISMS workshops around the globe), contributing to several research studies [ 5, 7, 10, 11] emphasizing a need and desire for wider access to such a tool.
With the woman's agreement, a letter will be sent to her general practitioner confirming trial entry.
Activities included 'Come n Try' physical activity expos, Fit to Function volunteer leader training, a multi-media campaign, a general practitioner referral trial, and professional leader training.
In our letter informing participants' family practitioners of trial participation, we will ask the family practitioner to notify the trial co-ordinator if their patient sustains either an adverse or serious adverse event as a result of this trial.
Practitioners perceived trial recruitment as an additional burden upon parents who were already anxious about their sick child [ 7, 15, 42].
To determine how strictly practitioners interpreted trial data and FDA indication, we described which other drugs were delivered in combination with first-line bevacizumab.
A feasibility study in North West Wales established two ways of improving the recruitment of patients from primary care into antidepressant trials: (a) researchers visited general practices to register, consent, randomise and follow-up patients; and (b) responsibility for prescribing shifted from general practitioners to trial psychiatrists.
Participants were informed regarding the nature of the study by the nurse practitioner or the trial nurse of the participating hospital.
Clinical data are obtained from the patient medical records by the Clinical Trials Practitioner (CTP) at each recruiting centre and entered onto a standard clinical trials data form (additional file 3).
We recruited general practitioners to the trial only if they agreed not to perform spinal manipulation or manual therapy on trial participants.
