Facilitating trial recruitment: A qualitative study of patient and staff experiences of an orthopaedic trauma trial.

Our findings highlight the pivotal role of research associates (RAs) in facilitating trial recruitment. RAs supported patients to enable them to make a decision about participation and assisted in developing a research culture within the team by promoting studies and communicating research to clinical staff. Our findings also reinforce surgeons' difficulty with equipoise and suggest that accepting community equipoise could facilitate recruitment.