Recruitment of Spinal Cord Injury Patients to Clinical Trials: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Clinical trials are the cornerstone of scientific evidence. Participant identification and recruitment is one of the most important challenges to any clinical trial. This article will review the whole recruitment process, with its method and strategy, and the problems faced during consecutive steps of recruitment. It then will give recommendations for those problems according to the scientific evidence and the authors' experience with clinical trials of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).