In order to include 200 participants, each physical therapist is requested to recruit about two patients.
The GPs were requested to recruit overweight individuals of whom a weight reduction was recommendable.
Each nation was requested to recruit at least one respondent from each cell of the sampling matrix.
Each full time equivalent rostering physician and nurse practitioner is requested to recruit a minimum of 100 patients and up to a maximum of 200 patients.
In our study, GPs were requested to recruit 'nervous breakdown' patients on sick leave, and to exclude patients with readily diagnosable depressive and anxiety disorders.
After which, practices were requested to recruit patients over a 12 week period, either 'opportunistically' (n = 3) or by targeting patients on their hypertension disease registers (n = 3).
To assuage his generals further, Bush promised that he would seek a permanent increase in the size of the Army and the Marine Corps; he later requested authority to recruit about a hundred thousand soldiers and marines, which would raise the size of the two forces, including National Guards and reserves, to more than 1.2 million.
The intelligence officials also played down the significance of the guidelines, saying that they had never prevented the C.I.A. from recruiting any informers and that senior officials had never rejected requests from the field to recruit informers with questionable backgrounds.
With hindsight it may have been beneficial to convert the 4-T research sites to Patient Identification Centres and request permission from the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care to recruit via the central co-ordinating office.
The data collection period was from July to September 2005, but could be prolonged in case a site was not able to recruit the requested number of participants within that time period.
