Organizational and physician factors associated with patient enrollment in cancer clinical trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our purpose was to identify physicians' individual characteristics, attitudes, and organizational contextual factors associated with higher enrollment of patients in cancer clinical trials among physician participants in the National Cancer Institute's Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP). We hypothesized that physicians' individual characteristics, such as age, medical specialty, tenure, CCOP organizational factors (i.e. policies and procedures to encourage enrollment), and attitudes toward participating in CCOP would directly determine enrollment. We also hypothesized that physicians' characteristics and CCOP organizational factors would influence physicians' attitudes toward participating in CCOP, which in turn would predict enrollment.

Methods

We evaluat

SUBMITTER: Jacobs SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4156916 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature