Evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of diverse recruitment methods for a genetic screening study.
Hila Milo RasoulyJulia WynnMaddalena MarasaRachel ReingoldDebanjana ChatterjeeSheena KapoorStacy PivaByum Hee KilXueru MuMaria AlvarezJordan NestorKarla MehlAnya Revah-PolitiNatalie LippaMichelle E ErnstLouise BierAileen EspinalBianca HaserAnoushka SinhaIan HalimDavid FaselNicole CuneoJacqueline J ThompsonMiguel VerbitskyElizabeth G CohnJill GoldmanKaren MarderRobert L KlitzmanManuela A OrjuelaYat S SoAlex FedotovKatherine D CrewKrzysztof KirylukPaul S AppelbaumChunhua WengKarolynn SiegelAli G GharaviWendy K ChungPublished in: Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (2019)
Although all methods were deployed in the same hospital or neighborhood and shared the same staff, each recruitment method was different in terms of cost and characteristics of the enrolled participants, suggesting the importance of carefully choosing the recruitment methods based on the desired composition of the final study sample. This analysis provides information about the effectiveness and cost of different methods to recruit adults for genetic research.