Patient-Reported Outcomes as a Recruitment Strategy for Clinical Trial Enrollment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinical trials are critical for progress in oncology; however, only 5% of the adult cancer population participates. Harnessing data that are routinely collected (ie, electronic patient-reported outcomes [ePROs]) may serve as a method to promote trial enrollment.

Objective

To evaluate if an ePRO-prompted recruitment strategy is associated with increased clinical trial enrollment.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized substudy was conducted from September 2022 to March 2023 at a multisite tertiary cancer center as part of an ongoing clinical trial that was testing a symptom-intervention for cancer-related fatigue. Patients with breast cancer who were undergoing radiotherapy who completed at least 1 ePRO questionnaire during the study period were inc

SUBMITTER: Verdini NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009859 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature