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Although age-dependent recruitment proportion was unknown, field data showed that females bred for the first time between 6 and 12y of age [32].
Heterogeneity of the recruitment proportion across studies was diagnosed with the Q test [ 40].
The recruitment proportion varied between 33% and 100% across programs (see Additional file 2).
Furthermore, we find that the recruitment proportion did not differ significantly between programs that offered a buy-out option and those that did not.
To determine the pooled recruitment proportion, the variances of the raw proportions were stabilized using the Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation [ 39].
The 51% recruitment proportion of requested patients is comparable to recruitment proportions in secondary care studies investigating end-of-life cancer patients [ 10].
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Three studies reported recruitment proportions in the same program using highly overlapping samples of participants [ 45, 59, 62].
Data on provider recruitment rates (proportion of eligible patients recruited to the survey), available from the NHS IC, [ 5] was calculated as the number of completed pre-operative questionnaires divided by the number of eligible patients, according to HES, for each procedure.
Success in recruitment and proportion of drop-outs (25%) were estimated based on the pilot study [ 28, 67].
We calculated the participation rate (number who agreed to participate over the total number approached)[ 10], and the recruitment efficiency (proportion of completed data submissions as a function of the number of letters sent)[ 9].
This allowed us to use dynamic block allocation 44 45 to achieve balance between groups of practices for the potential confounders of previous rate of antibiotic dispensing (averaged over the past year), practice size (number of whole time equivalent staff at recruitment), and proportion of clinicians in the practice registered for the study.
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