Health care professional recruitment of patients and family carers to palliative care randomised controlled trials: A qualitative multiple case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trial participant recruitment is an interactional process between health care professionals, patients and carers. Little is known about how clinicians carry out this role in palliative care trials and the reasons why they do or do not recruit participants.

Aims

To explore how clinicians recruit to palliative care trials, why they choose to implement particular recruitment strategies, and the factors that influence their choices.

Design

A qualitative multiple case study of three UK palliative care trials. Data collection included interviews and study documentation. Analysis involved developing and refining theoretical propositions, guided by the '6Ps' of the 'Social Marketing Mix Framework' as an a priori framework (identifying participants, product, price,

SUBMITTER: Dunleavy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10657513 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature