Central coordination as an alternative for local coordination in a multicenter randomized controlled trial: the FAITH trial experience

Table 2 Characteristics of countries participating in the FAITH trial

	NL (N = 14)	CA (N = 11)	US (N = 29)	P-value
Type of hospital
University	4 (28.6)	9 (81.8)	16 (55.2)	0.051
Non-university teaching	10 (71.4)	2 (18.2)	11 (37.9)
Non-university non-teaching	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (6.9)
Trial coordinator
Not available	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (3.4)	< 0.001
Available at site	0 (0.0)	8 (72.7)	28 (96.6)
Provided by central coordinating site	14 (100.0)	3 (27.3)	0 (0.0)

NL, the Netherlands; CA, Canada; US, United States.
Numbers in the headers represent the number of sites participating per country.
Data are presented as numbers with percentage between brackets. Statistics were calculated using the Chi-squared test.

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