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A randomised Study Within a Trial (SWAT) to determine if participant information leaflet design affects recruitment rate into an interventional trial taking place in a UK emergency department

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-025-09412-6

Published Online: 2026-02-06

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Authors

Sherman, Rachelle https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6559-5960
Tabner, Andrew

Fakis, Apostolos

Parker, Adwoa

Johnson, Graham
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Medical Research Council (MR/R013748/1)
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Article History

Received: 19 May 2025

Accepted: 22 December 2025

First Online: 6 February 2026

Declarations

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: The SWAT protocol was embedded within the SARC protocol and was approved alongside the SARC trial by the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 1 (19/WS/0087). Consent was not obtained for SWAT participants due to the nature of the intervention.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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