1. Patients were recruited from gastroenterology and rheumatology outpatient clinics at Northwick Park Hospital. 2. Eleven patients were recruited from our outpatient clinic and informed consent was obtained. 3. And they are recruiting patients who are often astonished by what is being asked of them. 4. After discovering how effective paying doctors to recruit patients can be, the drug industry has opened the financial floodgates. 5. But doctors who are particularly successful in recruiting study patients and keeping down their costs can make huge profits. 6. Critics contend that National Medical has skimped on the quality of its services and paid kickbacks to doctors who recruited patients. 7. Federal investigators found that the company had hired home health aides on the condition that they recruit patients. 8. Fallon is beginning to recruit patients complaining of chronic Lyme disease who have neurological and cognitive impairment for a study financed by the National Institutes of Health. 9. For a study of simple phobias, Rauch and his team recruited patients who were terrified of small animals like snakes, rats and tarantulas. |