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Strategies to Maximize Enrollment in a Prospective Study of Comatose Children in the PICU.

ABSTRACT: To analyze barriers to recruitment encountered during a prospective study in the PICU and evaluate strategies implemented to improve recruitment.Prospective observational study of continuous electroencephalogram monitoring in comatose children.PICUs at four North American institutions.Patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of less than or equal to 8 for at least an hour.Four strategies to increase recruitment were sequentially implemented.The baseline enrollment rate was 2.1 subjects/mo, which increased following the single-site introduction of real-time patient screening using an online dashboard (4.5 subjects/mo), deferred consenting (5.2 subjects/mo), and weekend screening (6.1 subjects/mo). However, the subsequent addition of three new study sites was the greatest accelerator of enrollment (21 subjects/mo), representing a 10-fold increase from baseline (p < 0.0001).Identifying barriers to recruitment and implementing creative strategies to increase recruitment can successfully increase enrollment rates in the challenging ICU environment.

SUBMITTER: McBain KL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4779671 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Strategies to Maximize Enrollment in a Prospective Study of Comatose Children in the PICU.

McBain Kristin L KL Payne Eric T ET Sharma Rohit R Frndova Helena H Abend Nicholas S NS Sánchez Sarah M SM Gallentine William B WB Cornett Karen M KM Nash Kendall B KB Snead O Carter OC Parshuram Christopher S CS Hutchison Jamie S JS Hahn Cecil D CD

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 20160301 3

<h4>Objectives</h4>To analyze barriers to recruitment encountered during a prospective study in the PICU and evaluate strategies implemented to improve recruitment.<h4>Design</h4>Prospective observational study of continuous electroencephalogram monitoring in comatose children.<h4>Setting</h4>PICUs at four North American institutions.<h4>Patients</h4>Patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of less than or equal to 8 for at least an hour.<h4>Interventions</h4>Four strategies to increase recruitm ...[more]

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