Improving Iowa Research Network Patient Recruitment for an Advance Care Planning Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction/objectives

In February 2019, recruitment began in Iowa Research Network offices for a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded Advance Care Planning (ACP) study to be conducted in 7 primary care practice-based research networks across the United States and Canada. The main study trained clinicians and nursing staff in serious illness care conversations and requested they refer eligible patients. Eligible patients were those with serious illness or frailty expected to live 1 to 2 years. Clinicians indicated it was difficult to identify eligible patients. This study aimed to find better methods for increasing patient recruitment for the ACP study.

Methods

Research staff brainstormed and implemented strategies to increase patient referrals from c

SUBMITTER: Schmidt ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042547 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature