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How to Recruit for a Trauma Trial
We did online questionnaires, MCQs to ensure they understood the trial. And then every day at our own base in Sydney we have coughing cases where we would daily discuss trauma cases and bring up why a patient could have potentially been enrolled who was missed. We did miss case surveillance and it was used as an educational aspect rather than punitive. So I certainly didn't send emails out saying I noticed this patient met criteria or hide it in general. In most Australian trauma systems there's a radio activation and we actively encourage the teams to give the hand over on the radio but also say patch trial patient, patch trial patients so people were aware. The team is particularly for a hand services team of