Group | Adaptation | Description |
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Recruitment adaptations | Two-stage remote-first eligibility assessment | A two-stage eligibility assessment, where eligibility is assessed remotely prior to an in-person eligibility assessment |
Recruitment outside the NHS via a charity | The use of charities to identify and contact potential participants | |
Remote consent (online or telephone) | The gaining of consent remotely, either via telephone or online | |
Remote consent (postal) | Where consent for participation in the trial is obtained through the participant sending the consent form via the postal service | |
Intervention delivery adaptations | Couriering of the IMP to the participant | Where the study drug is sent to the participant, rather than having to attend a pharmacy |
Remote delivery of the intervention by CTU staff | Where CTU remotely deliver the trial intervention, instead of site-based NHS staff | |
Outcome assessment adaptations | Remote collection of PROMs, blood pressures and a measure of blood glucose | Telephone or postal collection of PROMs, and remote collection of biological measures—blood pressures and a measure of blood glucose |
Prioritisation of in-person assessments | Where the trial team contact the participant prior to a scheduled in-person visit to ascertain the safety or necessity of undertaking the assessment | |
Prioritisation of in-person visits | Where the need to collect trial outcomes is reviewed for the entire trial | |
Remote collection of spirometry and cough data | Where spirometry and cough data are automatically collected by a device and sent to the study team | |
Collection of biological measures at another facility / use of routinely collected outcome measures | Instead of collecting the measure directly from the participant, another routine source is instead used |