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Your research title: Adaptation to practice in response to COVID-19 and beyond: the
effectiveness of digital interactive tools to optimize patient-centered recruitment and
retention to sustain clinical trials practice.
Your research aims and objectives
● Can digital interactive tools be leveraged to transform cancer clinical trials
during and post covid 19?
● Identification of a digital technology core set as a decision and support aid,
universally applicable across a range of health conditions.
● Whether such digital tools can be harnessed to improve the awareness of
trials.
● Evaluating the effectiveness of digital interactive tools.
Concept 1
The instrument
Concept 2
method
Concept 3
Target group
Synonyms/alternatives
Plurals/abbreviations
Digital tools
Digital innovations
Innovative approach
Communicating
collaborating
Synonyms/alternatives
Plurals/abbreviations
Implementation
Adaptation
incorporation
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Plurals/abbreviations
Patient-centredness
Personalised
Individualised
Patient engagement
Patient involvement
Limits (e.g. geographic, dates, language, subject terms)
Internationally, last 10years (past, present and future)
Search tools (e.g. subject databases, search engines, library catalogue)
EBSCO, summon, library database A-Z, google scholar
Key authors/texts (useful for backward searches of references lists, and forward
searches of citations)
Doherty, et al, Hutchison et al, Kraft et al, Inan et al
Key sources of information (e.g. key journals, books, reports, conference
proceedings, websites)
Journals, conference reports, NHS & NIHR guidance policies