Effect of a Clinical Trial Alert System on Physician Participation in Trial Recruitment
Archives of Internal MedicinePublished 24 October 2005Open access
Peter J. Embí, Anil Jain, Jeffrey R. Clark, Susan Bizjack, Richard Hornung, C. Martin Harris
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Use of an EHR-based CTA led to significant increases in physicians' participation in and recruitment rates to an ongoing clinical trial, and may represent a much-needed solution to the common problem of inadequate trial recruitment.
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Use of an EHR-based CTA led to significant increases in physicians' participation in and recruitment rates to an ongoing clinical trial. Given the trend toward the EHR implementation in health care centers engaged in clinical research, this approach may represent a much-needed solution to the common problem of inadequate trial recruitment.
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