Speaker: Adwoa Parker
This talk is the March Learning Club Webinar for Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and will focus on SWATs. This month we’ll be joined by Dr Adwoa Parker, NIHR Advanced Fellow and Assistant Professor, and lead of the Trial Forge Swat Centre at the University of York. Adwoa will give an update on SWAT methodology, and opportunities to get involved in high priority SWATs.
Abstract: Trials are the best way to test how effective health treatments are. However, almost half of all trials fail to recruit enough participants, and many participants drop out once they are recruited. These problems with recruitment and retention cause huge amounts of research waste that has been described as a scandal. Poor recruitment and retention have a human cost, too. A study of a COVID-19 trial found that every 50-day delay in completion due to slow recruitment or retention led to ~450 more deaths in the UK alone. This webinar will discuss ‘Study Within A Trial’ (SWAT) methodology and how it can be used to increase the evidence-base for strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of participants in trials.
