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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2015 Jan 31;23(7):698–708. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2015.01.005

Table 2.

Number of referrals and disposition by the five main recruitment strategies

Source Number
Referred
Number cognitive
screened-phone a
Overall Screening
Yield by Source
(screened/referred
*100)
Number Enrolled b Overall Enrollee
Yield by Source
(enrolled/referred
*100)
All Minority All Minority a All Minority All Minority
Community Liaison Organizations c 181 122 43 67% 24% 89 39 49% 22%
Community organizations-Letters d 715 353 29 49% 4% 120 24 17% 3%
Community organizations-display
Flyer/brochure/bookmark e
44 35 6 80% 14% 17 6 39% 14%
JHU Research Registry 153 31 6 20% 4% 14 4 9% 3%
General community outreach 182 123 17 68% 9% 63 14 35% 8%
TOTALS 1275 664 101 52% 8% 303 87 24% 7%

Notes: Minority refers to individuals who identified their racial background as African American/Black or Asian. Organizations were categorized as exclusively being either a Community Liaison Organization, a community organization that sent letters, or a community organization that distributed or displayed recruitment material.

a

Missing race data on 195

b

Missing race data on 4

c

Community Liaison Organizations included adult day/senior centers (n=2), general aging/dementia (n=3), home health agencies (n=5), meal service (n=1), older housing/post acute (n=1), and physician, allied health, or social service agencies (n=3)

d

Community organizations that sent letters included adult day/senior centers (n=3), general community organizations (n=1), general aging or dementia focused organizations (n=2), and older housing/post acute (n=1).

e

Community organizations displaying/providing Flyers/brochure/bookmarks included adult day/senior centers (n=2), general community organizations (n=2), religious (n=2), older housing/post acute (n=3), elder law (n=1), and physician, allied health, or social service agencies n=7).