Table 2.
Qualitative Recruitment Investigation (QRI) objectives |
1. To monitor recruitment rates and identify sources of recruitment difficulties in the first year of the trial 2. To develop a plan to optimise randomisation and informed consent |
Health economics objectives |
1. To compare cost-effectiveness in all treatment arms through cost-utility analysis 2. To estimate the cost per quality-adjusted life years (QALY) over the 2-year period of the trial |
Translational research (CompARE Collect) objectives |
1. To prospectively collect and ‘bank’ high-quality tissue, saliva, and blood samples from patients with intermediate- and high- risk OPC 2. To develop and validate biomarker classifiers to aid better stratification of treatment selection 3. To develop several inter-related and complementary head and neck translational research projects |