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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Trials. 2025 Aug 21;22(5):597–606. doi: 10.1177/17407745251358259

Table 2.

Milestone Completion Rates by Recruitment Method

Variable Recruitment Method

All Email Patient portal

n % n % n % OR 95% CI p

Self-screener 1207 6.7 369 4.1 838 9.1 2.40 2.12, 2.73 <.0001
Phone-screener 360 2.0 134 1.5 226 2.5 1.70 1.37, 212 <.0001
Consent 187 1.0 70 0.8 117 1.3 1.68 1.25, 2.26 .0006
Run-in 165 0.9 60 0.7 105 1.2 1.76 1.28, 2.42 .0005
Baseline 107 0.6 39 0.4 68 0.8 1.75 1.18, 2.60 .0055
Randomization 85 0.5 35 0.4 50 0.5 1.43 0.93, 2.21 .10

Note. OR = Odds ratio; Compares likelihood of those who were outreached via patient portal to those outreached via email (reference group) for each recruitment milestone. CI = Confidence interval.