Strategies to support recruitment of patients with life-limiting illness for research: The palliative care research cooperative group

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1021-1030

  Hanson, Laura C ^a,b   Bull, Janet ^c   Wessell, Kathryn ^b   Massie, Lisa ^c   Bennett, Rachael E ^d   Kutner, Jean S ^d   Aziz, Noreen M ^e   Abernethy, Amy ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical trials; Palliative care; recruitment; research networks

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; INTERVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919952897     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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