Researchers recruited subjects by interviewing families as they left a Seattle area food cooperative or retail chain supermarket.
Pharmaceutical companies pay physicians to test new drugs, and research institutes pressure them to recruit human subjects.
The CRC is responsible for subject recruitment once the trial begins or establishing the research team that will recruit subjects.
Mr. Nelson said the study sought to recruit subjects in a poor neighborhood by offering parents compensation for practices potentially dangerous to their children.
Without a patient base to draw from for studies, Dr. Cutler found other ways to recruit subjects, including serving as a nursing home consultant.
But trials that examine sexually transmitted diseases may recruit subjects who have had many sexual partners, and studies of drug users seek out addicts.
The commission recruited human subjects because they did not know of any animals that could contract yellow fever.
The researchers promptly recruit human subjects for trials.
We recruited subjects from the diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.