UTech's pharmacy programme is 4 years in length with a typical annual enrolment of 85 new students.
To facilitate enrolment of a typical mCRC population, eligibility criteria were minimised.
In a typical year, the university has an enrolment of 24,500 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students.
Two hundred and sixty-six patients with typical symptoms of GORD met the enrolment criteria and entered the study.
However, this effect is partially offset by recruitment from the UK enrolment centres which are more typical tertiary referral centres, and will not occur in subsequent stages of the BRIDGE-BPD project which will recruit more widely.
At enrolment, 84% of patients were taking atypical drugs, 3.7% typical, 10% a combination of the two classes, and 2% were untreated.
During the 90 days before enrolment, 58.6% of the 637 patients took only atypical antipsychotics, 2.8% only typical antipsychotics, 6.0% a combination of both atypical and typical, and 1.7% never started an antipsychotic treatment.
Immediately post enrolment, families are sent a 7-day sleep and medication log to complete during a typical school week and scheduled for a phone interview to assess child internalising and externalising comorbidities (described below).
The diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical clinical and histopathological features, determined by a muscle biopsy performed at NIH at the time of enrolment in the longitudinal study (baseline biopsy).
Slowly enrolment has picked up.
