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Recruiting sufficient numbers of participants to clinical trials is essential to ensure accurate findings. This can be challenging however. This Cochrane Collaboration review assesses strategies to improve trial recruitment. A few methods were identified to improve recruitment, but some of these may not be possible, for example allowing participants to know which study arm they are in.
The authors suggest real trials include an evaluation of recruitment strategies