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Table 2 Recruitment of Older Patients with Cancer by General Practices in different Primary Care Trusts

From: A comparison of strategies to recruit older patients and carers to end-of-life research in primary care

Area

Number of GP practices

Number of patients invited

Interviews conducted

Proportion of interviews from invitations

PCT 1

3

16

3

18.8%

PCT 2

4

14

3

21.4%

PCT 3

4

47

8

17.0%

PCT 4

4

62

9

14.5%

Totals

15

139

21

15.1%

  1. The PCTs are listed in order of increasing socioeconomic disadvantage of the population served.