Title |
The SALOME study: recruitment experiences in a clinical trial offering injectable diacetylmorphine and hydromorphone for opioid dependency
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Published in |
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/1747-597x-10-3 |
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Authors |
Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Kirsten Marchand, Kurt Lock, Scott MacDonald, Daphne Guh, Martin T Schechter |
Abstract |
The Study to Assess Long-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) is a two-stage phase III, single site (Vancouver, Canada), randomized, double blind controlled trial designed to test if hydromorphone is as effective as diacetylmorphine for the treatment of long-term illicit opioid injection. Recruiting participants for clinical trials continues to be a challenge in medical and addiction research, with many studies not being able to reach the planned sample size in a timely manner. The aim of this study is to describe the recruitment strategies in SALOME, which offered appealing treatments but had limited clinic capacity and no guaranteed post-trial continuation of the treatments. |
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