Title:	Clinical trial recruiters’ experiences working with trial eligibility criteria: results of an exploratory, cross-sectional, online survey in the UK
Running Head:	Recruiters’ experiences with eligibility criteria
Version + Date:	Version 2.0 11-Oct-2021
Word count:	4581
Tables/Figures:	2 tables, 4 figures
Supplement:	Eligibility criteria survey text Eligibility criteria survey invitation text CROSS checklist
Authors:	Name	Affiliation
	William J Cragg w.cragg@leeds.ac.uk ORCID: 0000-0002-1274-8521	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
	Kathryn McMahon	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
	Jamie B Oughton ORCID: 0000-0002-2047-804X	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
	Rachel Sigsworth	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
	Christopher Taylor	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
	Vicky Napp ORCID: 0000-0001-6726-2222	Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, UK
Correspondence:	William Cragg w.cragg@leeds.ac.uk Tel: 0113 343 8398 Clinical Trials Research Unit Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Research support:	This work was supported by a Cancer Research UK Core CTU infrastructure grant (reference A24929).
Summary of figures and tables	Figure 1: characteristics of eligible survey respondents (n = 823) Figure 2: reported incidence of encountering problems with trial eligibility criteria. Figure 3: respondents’ reported primary method for accessing trial eligibility criteria Figure 4: respondents’ views on the possibility of earlier trial protocol review Table 1: Top 10 most frequent responses about types of problems experienced when using eligibility criteria Table 2: Top 10 most frequent additional comments about how eligibility criteria are developed or used