COMMENTARY
Recruiting participants
Recruiting participants for injury studies in emergency departments
1 Division of Primary Care, University Park, Nottingham, UK
2 Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL), School of Medicine Swansea University, Swansea, UK
3 Surrey Injury Research Group, Postgraduate Medical School, Daphne Jackson Road, Manor Park, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
4 Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Hampton House, Cotham Hill, Bristol, UK
5 Centre for Clinical and Health Services Research, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Glenside Campus, Bristol, UK
6 Emergency Department, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen’s Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham, UK
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Dr D Kendrick
Division of Primary Care, Floor 13, Tower Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; denise.kendrick@nottingham.ac.uk
Accepted 5 December 2006
Emergency departments have the potential to maximize recruitment efficiency and minimize recruiting costs
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For many studies, especially those requiring incident injury cases, emergency departments are the most suitable location for recruiting participants.1 Although the total number of injury attendances is greater in outpatient or primary care settings than in emergency departments,2 geographical spread and the mixture of incident and prevalent cases make recruiting participants from these sites less feasible, more time consuming and more costly. Emergency departments, on the other hand, will see the largest number and spectrum of injury cases, usually presenting very shortly after injury in a single healthcare setting. This has the potential to maximize recruitment efficiency and minimize recruiting costs. Recruiting in emergency departments also provides opportunities to study the aetiology and epidemiology of injuries before recall of events diminishes with time and to enroll participants for studying short- and long-term consequences of injury. They are the only setting in which complete ascertainment of incident cases of
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