Central Recruitment: A process for engaging and recruiting individuals with spinal cord injury/disease in research at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
Beverley Catharine CravenLouise BrisboisChelsea A PelletierJulia RybkinaAnn M HeestersMary Caroline VerrierPublished in: The journal of spinal cord medicine (2021)
This process adhered to ethical procedures and reduced the burden of having multiple researchers approach each individual inpatient regarding research participation, with high consent rates for low-risk studies. Future evaluation of the process scalability is underway.