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Enabling recruitment success in bariatric surgical trials: pilot phase of the By-Band-Sleeve study (2017)
Journal Article
Paramasivan, U. O. B., Rogers, C. A., Welbourn, R., Byrne, J. P., Salter, N., Mahon, D., …on behalf of the By-Band-Sleeve TMG. (2017). Enabling recruitment success in bariatric surgical trials: pilot phase of the By-Band-Sleeve study. International journal of obesity, 41(11), 1654-1661. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.153

Background:
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving surgical procedures are challenging for recruitment and infrequent in the specialty of bariatrics. The pilot phase of the By-Band-Sleeve study (gastric bypass versus gastric band versus sleev... Read More about Enabling recruitment success in bariatric surgical trials: pilot phase of the By-Band-Sleeve study.

Equipoise across the patient population: optimising recruitment to a randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
Whybrow, P., Pickard, R., Hrisos, S., & Rapley, T. (2017). Equipoise across the patient population: optimising recruitment to a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 18(1), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1711-8

Background
This paper proposes a novel perspective on the value of qualitative research for improving trial design and optimising recruitment. We report findings from a qualitative study set within the OPEN trial, a surgical randomised controlled tr... Read More about Equipoise across the patient population: optimising recruitment to a randomised controlled trial.