Table 2.

Total Recruitment Costs

	Bath/Bristol	Exeter/Devon	B’ham	Total	%	Cost per Recruitment Source	Cost per Recruit
Total recruited	335	268	174	777	100%
Participant identification
Invitation from GP	260	251	171	682	87.8%	£26,582.36	£38.98
PR campaign	41	1	0	42	5.4%	£726.18	£17.29
Snowballing/word of mouth	8	12	3	23	3.0%	£55.20	£2.40
Sheltered housing facilities	7	1	0	8	1.02%	£469.28	£67.04
Community partners/groups	9	3	0	12	1.5%	£52.68	£4.39
Research subject database	3	0	0	3	0.4%	£114.30	£38.10
Nonidentifiable	7	0	0	7	0.9%	£196.21	£28.03
Total cost—all recruitment sources						£28,196.21
Screening
Additional casual staff—telephone screening						£8,500a	£10.94
Venue hire per face-to-face assessment; 0.5 h/screening @ £30/h				1,214		£18,210	£23.43
Participant travel to face-to-face screenings (estimated)				1,214		£6,070	£7.81
Total						£32,780.
Overall cost						£60,976.21
Total cost per recruit (Total cost/777)							£78.47
Service Support Costsb						£20,621	£26.54

Note: B’ham = Birmingham; GP = general practitioner; PR = public relations.

^aEstimate of the casual staff costs associated with telephone screening, ^bCosts borne by the Clinical Research Network, not the research budget.