Reimbursement Matters: Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Trial Accrual.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accrual to cancer clinical trials is suboptimal. Few data exist regarding whether financial reimbursement might increase accruals.

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess perceptions about reimbursement to overcome barriers to trial accrual.

Research design

This was a cross-sectional survey.

Subjects

Oncologists identified from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile.

Measures

We report descriptive statistics, associations of physician characteristics with perceptions of reimbursement, domains, and subthemes of free-text comments.

Results

Respondents (n=1030) were mostly medical oncologists (59.4%), ages 35-54 (67%), and male (75%). Overall, 30% reported discussing trials with >25% of patients. Barriers perceiv

SUBMITTER: Lee SJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026490 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature