Purpose: Palliative care is increasingly viewed as a necessary component of cancer care,
especially for patients with advanced disease. Rigorous clinical trials are thus needed to …

Context The challenges of palliative care clinical trial recruitment are well documented.
Objectives The aim of the study was to review tested strategies to improve recruitment to …

Background: Effective recruitment to randomised controlled trials is critically important for a
robust, trustworthy evidence base in palliative care. Many trials fail to achieve recruitment …

Like any other speciality, palliative care needs a scientific foundation on which to base its
practice. Research in palliative care is particularly difficult because of the characteristics of …

Abstract Context The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) is the first clinical
trials cooperative for palliative care in the US Objectives To describe barriers and strategies …

Background The addition of specialty palliative care to standard oncology care improves
outcomes for patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers, but many lack access to …

Research on palliative care presents some unique sampling challenges. The purpose of this
paper is to articulate the sampling challenges that palliative care researchers face during …

Objectives To identify those factors which adversely affected recruitment to a large
multicentre palliative care study. Methods Patient accrual to a multicentre, observational …

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in palliative cancer care often experience
methodological problems. In this paper we discuss issues of major concern, including …

THE EARLY SUCCESSES of hospital-and community-based hospice and palliative care
programs have led to rapid growth of these services over the past several decades. 1, 2 This …