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Table 1 Summary of the number of attempted telephone calls made to recruit farms to the study

From: Development and validation of a protocol to identify and recruit participants into a large scale study on liver fluke in cattle

Number of calls

Number (%) of farms

 

All farms

Farms successfully contacted

0

28 (4.9)a

–

1

281 (49.4)

246 (62.1)

2

166 (29.2)

106 (26.8)

3

60 (10.5)

27 (6.8)

4

13 (2.3)

8 (2.0)

5

5 (0.9)

3 (0.8)

6

8 (1.4)

5 (1.3)

7

8 (1.4)

1 (0.3)

Total

569

396

  1. aTelephone numbers used were not valid