Community interaction
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Conducting study in safety net community clinics [29,30,31]
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Working with community-based patient partners [13, 14, 18, 29, 32]
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Partnering with community clinics [29, 30, 32]
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Meeting with patients and stakeholders over course of study (study advisory board) [33,34,35,36,37,38]
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Clinic interaction
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Creating value for clinical care (e.g., providing test results to primary care clinicians) [13, 30, 33]
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Providing education to clinic staff [33]
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Payments to clinics [40]
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Basing study activities at community clinics [37, 38, 40,41,42,43]
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Patient interaction
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Providing information to patient about their condition [13]
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Bilingual staff and study materials [14, 18, 34]
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Training research staff in outreach, recruitment and retention, especially for minority and underserved populations [45]
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Recruitment
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Face to face recruitment and enrollment when possible [8, 14]
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Minimal inclusion/exclusion criteria [19]
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Not requiring patient to endorse diagnosis of condition [14, 27]
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Retention
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Meeting with patient at home or close to where patient lived [14, 18]
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Continuity of personal relationship with member of study team [8, 18, 46]
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Maintaining contact at 3 month intervals [14, 44]
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Both recruitment and retention
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Flexibility in rescheduling meeting times [14, 18]
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Providing compensation to patients [8, 13, 14, 27, 44]
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