Plans to promote participant retention and complete follow-up {18b}
PEx
The PEx cohort is designed to be pragmatic and embedded within routine care to foster high participation and retention and minimize the burden on participants and clinicians. Data quality and adherence to the protocol is promoted by (i) conducting a commencement meeting for all project coordinators and investigators at each site prior to their involvement; (ii) performing site inductions which include specific training about the protocol and the provision of reference documents for project staff; (iii) provision of a data dictionary to assist with data entry on the CRF/eCRF; and (iv) the data management center performs timely validation of data and addresses queries and corrections if errors are found during quality control checks.