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Minimal information (age, occupation and reason for refusal) will be collected from subjects refusing participation to compare participants and non-participants and identify differential non-participation.
Reasons for refusing participation included: hospital was already participating in other research projects, lack of time or excessive workload, too few staff members to recruit participants, or insufficient number of patients who met the inclusion criteria.
Active refusal rates were low with 130 of 2,631 patients refusing participation (4.9%).
The characteristics of study participants relative to those who were not contacted or refusing participation (Additional file 1: Table S1) were similar in age, sex distribution, injury severity and type of insurance claim made.
If an eligible patient refuses to participate, their date of birth, sex and reason for refusing participation will be documented.
UB sanctions can also result from refusing participation in vocational training, fraud, and undeclared work.
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Letters include self-addressed stamped envelopes with standard refusal postcards allowing potential participants to refuse participation.
At inclusion, individuals may refuse participation (become non-participants), a potential source of bias.
Of the eleven researchers who did not participate, two refused participation and nine could not be reached.
Participants that refused participation in the FGDs cited time constraints as the main reason.
First, our nurse sample might not be entirely random because potential participants could refuse participation.
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