PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 3 Supplement September 1999, pp. 619-622
Patient Recruitment: US Perspective
Received Mar 30, 1999; accepted Mar 31, 1999.
From the Division of Pharmacology/Toxicology, Children's Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
There are many ethical, legal, economic, scientific, and practical problems associated with conducting drug trials in children. The single most difficult is subject identification and enrollment (ie, recruitment). This article reviews various aspects of the recruitment process and proposes potential solutions to recruitment problems.
Key words: pediatric, drug trials, subjects, recruitment, enrollment.
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