Year 1 (recruitment and follow-up):
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Research nurse to screen and recruit patients (recruitment activity).
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Research costs (research acitivty): 0.3 whole time equivalent (WTE) of a research nurse for the 12 month recruitment period for research activity.
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Undertake data collection for the research, data entry, monitoring and meeting attendance (research activity).
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Service support costs (recruitment activity): 0.7 WTE - We looked the LRNs to make up a full time post (based on our assumption about recruitment activity).
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Year 2 (follow-up only):
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12 month follow-up (a half hour telephone interview plus data entry) and closeout visit, plus support for any monitoring and audit activity required.
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Research costs: £300 per participant recruited
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