Challenges in Palliative Care Research: Experience from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Refractory Cancer Cachexia
Journal Title: Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
There is a paucity of research studies in palliative care with less than 1% of clinical trials being relevant to the hospice and palliative care setting.1 Difficulties in conducting studies with this client group such as recruitment, retention, methodological and ethical issues are well documented within the literature.1,2-6 Nonetheless, conducting research with palliative populations is necessary to ensure the development of evidence based policies and services which reflect and respond to the needs of this vulnerable and often underserved population. Previous research has demonstrated that palliative care patients7,8 and their families9 are willing to be involved in palliative care research and the onus to conduct high quality rigorous research with this client group lies with researchers.10 It is only through actively engaging in research with the palliative population that we can build an evidence base that will contribute to the development of evidence based policies, protocols and treatments and allow health care professionals to consistently respond to palliative patients and their families in order to maximise their quality of life as they approach the end of their lives.
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Joanne Reid
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