African American Recruitment in Early Heart Failure Palliative Care Trials: Outcomes and Comparison With the ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care trial recruitment of African Americans (AAs) is a formidable research challenge.

Objectives

Examine AA clinical trial recruitment and enrollment in a palliative care randomized controlled trial (RCT) for heart failure (HF) patients and compare patient baseline characteristics to other HF palliative care RCTs.

Methods

This is a descriptive analysis the ENABLE CHF-PC (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends: Comprehensive Heartcare for Patients and Caregivers) RCT using bivariate statistics to compare racial and patient characteristics and differences through recruitment stages. We then compared the baseline sample characteristics among three palliative HF trials.

Results

Of 785 patients screened, 566 eligible patients with NYHA clas

SUBMITTER: Stockdill ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8314978 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature