Recruitment by community screenings.
Community screening represents a recruitment strategy with a relatively high volume of initial contacts and entries, a low ratio of entries to initial contacts, and a relatively high effort level requirement for the recruitment team. In the CPPT, all but two centers used all three categories of community screening--locations, events and organizations--to provide, overall, 21% of initial contacts and 14% of first protocol visits and entries. Community screening is costly and involves careful planning and implementation of complex arrangements. Screening of community locations was better than events or organizations, primarily because of the greater proportion of age-eligible men relative to the total screened and the higher volume of initial contacts.
D000328:Adult; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged