title: [Strategy on the recruitment of free community medical-consultation in acupuncture clinical trials].
abstract: The difficulty in the participant recruitment is the common question in acupuncture clinical trial study. The existing recruitment of clinical trial is most applicable for the clinical trial of medicines. Because the intervention of acupuncture clinical trial is different from that of medicines, characterized as the specialties in "theory, principle, acupoints, technique", it is very necessary to develop the strategy on the participant recruitment in acupuncture clinical trial. The free community medical consultation is one of the important means of recruitment. In the paper, by taking the participant recruitment of acupuncture clinical trial on chronic stable angina pectoris as the example, the discussion is given on the strategy on the recruitment of free community medical consultation in the aspects of feasible investigation of recruitment approach, recruitment plan, participant screening, etc. The revisiting after the free community medical consultation is the important approach to the improvement of successful recruitment. This strategy on the recruitment of free community medical consultation is highly practical and improves the successful rate and compliance of the participant recruitment. Hence, this strategy deserves to be promoted.
authors.forename: Hailong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Junling
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Linglin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Junyan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dehua
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Fanrong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*