Members from theme 2 have recently published a paper that describes the equipoise related challenges that hampered trial recruitment and the ways in which the QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI) enabled recruiters to overcome these challenges.  Following the implementation of the QRI, the PART feasibility study recruited to target and completed recruitment.  The paper is currently in press; you can read the paper here.

Elliott D, Hamdy F, Leslie T, Rosario D, Dudderidge T, Hindley R, Emberton M, Brewster S, Sooriakumaran P, Catto J, Ahmed H, Whybrow P, le Conte S & Donovan J (2018). Overcoming difficulties with equipoise to enable recruitment to a randomised controlled trial of partial ablation versus radical prostatectomy for unilateral localised prostate cancer.  BJU International.  In Press.