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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 25, 2007
Rheumatology 2007 46(7):1207-1208; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem080
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Successful patient recruitment in investigator-led clinical trials

S. J. Bowman, G. J. Macfarlane1 on behalf of the Arthritis Research Campaign Data Monitoring Committee

Rheumatology Department, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham and 1Epidemiology Group, Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Correspondence to: S. J. Bowman, PhD, FRCP, Rheumatology Department, Selly Oak Hospital, Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK. E-mail: simon.bowman@uhb.nhs.uk

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SIR, The Academic Rheumatology Community in the UK has an excellent track record in organizing investigator-led clinical therapeutic trials. Since 1999 a formal scheme for funding such trials has been in operation through a collaboration between the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC), the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA).

There is a substantial literature in the public domain to guide those applying for funding for clinical trial support . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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