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Table 3 Recruitment and Reasons for Exclusion of Patient Interviewees by General Practices

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

GP list size*

Identification method

Number of patients identified

Number of patients invited

Invitations per 100,000 patients registered

Reasons given for exclusion

3,000

Register of palliative care patients

6

2

66

Cognitive impairment (2), Nursing home residents (2)

3,000

GP knowledge

17

15

500

Cognitive impairment (2)

5,500

Register of palliative care patients

4

4

70

 

6,000

Register of palliative care patients

9

9

150

 

6,000

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3

3

50

 

7,000

Register of palliative care patients

21

11

157

Cognitive impairment (3), Nursing home (1), staying with family (1), emotionally vulnerable (1), near to death (1), does not wish to be invited (1), may live longer than 1 year (2)

7,500

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5

5

66

 

8,000

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4

4

50

 

9,000

Practice ‘care board’

2

2

22

 

11,000

Register of palliative care patients & GP knowledge

16

9

82

No reasons stated

15,000

GP knowledge

2

2

13

 

16,000

Register of palliative care patients

9

7

44

‘Too unwell’ (2)

36,000

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49

49

136

 
  1. *Data on two practices are not available. List sizes have been rounded to the nearest 500 ensure anonymity.
  2. Two practices listed in Table 3 did provide detailed information about exclusions.