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Table 3 Recruitment rates

	Total randomised	Total months recruiting	Number of recruiting sites	Recruitment rate (total randomised/site/month)
LM [2]	288	8.3 ^a	2	17.4
PLINY [3]	157	7.5 ^b	1	21.0
REPOSE [4]	317	16.7 ^b	8	2.4
STEPWISE [5]	414	12.9 ^a	10	3.2
JtD [1]	480	21.2 ^a	13	1.7

Start date of recruitment taken as either: ^a the date of the first randomised participant; or ^b the 1st of the month (where the starting month is reported). The end date is the last randomised participant in all cases

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