Enrollment Challenges in Critical Care Nursing Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enrollment challenges for critical care research are common. Contributing factors include short enrollment windows, the crisis nature of critical illness, lack of research staff, unavailable legal proxy, family dynamics, and language barriers.

Objective

To describe enrollment statistics for an ongoing critical care nursing trial, barriers to recruitment, and strategies to enhance enrollment.

Methods

Two years' worth of recruitment and enrollment data from an oral care intervention trial in critically ill adults receiving mechanical ventilation at 1 hospital were analyzed. Recruitment logs include number of patients screened, eligible, enrolled, and declined and patients' sex, race, and ethnicity.

Results

Target enrollment (15.5 patients per month) wa

SUBMITTER: Sole ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015765 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature