Journal article
Lessons From the Field Challenges in Accruing Hospice Heart Failure Patients to Intervention Research
The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, Vol.29(1), pp.91-97
01/01/2014
DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0b013e3182784cc0
PMCID: PMC3657574
PMID: 23416935
Abstract
Recent clinical practice guidelines suggest that hospice can be a valuable alternative for patients with advanced heart failure (HF). Unfortunately, there are very few evidence-based nursing interventions to guide symptom management for HF patients in hospice and their caregivers. Nevertheless, conducting clinical research in hospice populations remains fraught with methodological and ethical challenges. Our research team was not naive to the fact that hospice research is difficult. We believed that we had prepared well for a number of contingencies before the beginning of our clinical trial testing the feasibility of delivering a psychosocial intervention to caregivers of patients with HF. Despite the team expertise and well-defined recruitment strategies, the recruitment, both accrual and attrition, remained daunting in this population. The purpose of this article was to report the challenges of recruiting hospice patients with HF and caregivers for our randomized clinical trial, those we anticipated and those we did not.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lessons From the Field Challenges in Accruing Hospice Heart Failure Patients to Intervention Research
- Creators
- Cheryl H. Zambroski - University of South FloridaHarleah Buck - Pennsylvania State UniversityChristopher M. Garrison - St Petersburg Coll, Dept Nursing, St Petersburg, FL USASusan C. McMillan - Univ S Florida, Coll Nursing, Tampa, FL 33612 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, Vol.29(1), pp.91-97
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/JCN.0b013e3182784cc0
- PMID
- 23416935
- PMCID
- PMC3657574
- ISSN
- 0889-4655
- eISSN
- 1550-5049
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- 1R21NR 011224-01A1 / National Institute of Nursing Research; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) R21NR011224 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370461302771
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