Recruitment strategies for sarcopenia trials : lessons from the LACE randomised controlled trial
Acknowledgements MDW, TA and AAS acknowledge support from the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre. With thanks to NHS Scotland Support for Science for supporting the trial, and to the NIHR Ageing Clinical Research Network and the NIHR Primary Care Research Network for their assistance with site identification and participant recruitment. The authors of this manuscript certify that they comply with the ethical guidelines for authorship and publishing in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle [28]. Funding The LACE trial (project reference 13/53/03) is funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme, an MRC and NIHR partnership. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the MRC, NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF