Jan 3, 2020

Trial marketing in the Pan-Canadian Early Detection of Lung Cancer Study

Clinical trials (London, England)
Janice L Rudkowski, Gregory R Pond, Alain Tremblay, Michael Johnston, Glen Goss, Garth Nicholas, Simon Martel, Rick Bhatia, Geoffrey Liu, Heidi Schmidt, Martin C Tammemagi, Sukhinder Atkar-Khattra, Ming-Sound Tsao, Stephen Lam, John R Goffin
CONCLUSION: A survey of trial candidates provides useful information regarding personal motivation, media use, and lifestyle. Unpaid media events appear superior in generating recruitment, while print media may be superior to radio and television in selecting eligible recruits. The utility of individual print media characteristics appears to differ from the commercial advertising literature. Further research on marketing in clinical trials is encouraged to improve recruitment (...