Strategies to enhance recruitment and consent to intensive care studies: a qualitative study with researchers and patient-public involvement contributors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical trials and studies in intensive care units (ICUs) have complex consent processes and often encounter problems in recruiting patients. By interviewing research team members about the challenges in critical care research, we aimed to identify strategies to enhance recruitment and consent to ICU studies.

Methods

Semistructured interviews with UK-based researchers (N=17) and patient-public involvement (PPI) contributors (N=8) with experience of ICU studies. Analysis of transcripts of audio-recorded interviews drew on thematic approaches.

Results

Seven themes were identified. Participants emphasised the need for substitute decision-making processes in critical care studies, yet some researchers reported that research ethics committees (RECs) were relucta

SUBMITTER: Paddock K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461270 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature