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ArticleThe Journal of cardiovascular nursing

Lessons from the field: challenges in accruing hospice heart failure patients to intervention research.

Cheryl H Zambroski, Harleah Buck, Christopher M Garrison, Susan C McMillan

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Article in The Journal of cardiovascular nursing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Effect of Digital Literacy on Participation in Social Media Clinical Trials in Cancer: Tailoring an Informed Consent Process.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2022
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  4. The COPE Intervention for Caregivers of Patients with Heart Failure: An Adapted Intervention.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cheryl H ZambroskiCheryl H. Zambroski, PhD, RN Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa. Harleah Buck, PhD, RN, CHPN Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Christopher M. Garrison, MSN, ARNP,CNE Instructor, St Petersburg College, Nursing Department, St Petersburg, Florida. Susan C. McMillan, PhD, ARNP, FAAN Distinguished University Health Professor and Thompson Professor of Oncology Nursing, College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Harleah Buck
Christopher M Garrison
Susan C McMillan
Royal College of Nursing · GBPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

Pilot of an Intervention for Caregivers of Hospice HF PatientsR21NR011224 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI MCMILLAN, SUSAN C · 2009 to 2010
$384k
NINR NIH HHS 1R21NR 011224-01A1NINR NIH HHS R21 NR011224
6 · The paper itself

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.

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Heart FailureHospicesPatient SelectionCaregiversHumansNursing Methodology ResearchRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicResearch DesignTerminal Care

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PMID23416935
PMCPMC3657574
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