Pitfalls and Prospects - Lessons Learned from Early Palliative Care Research.

Abstract

Lessons Learned from Early Palliative Care ResearchBuilding on a single-site trial of introducing palliative care soon after cancer diagnosis, researchers set out to conduct a multisite trial. Here, investigators describe how their experience with methodologic challenges that ultimately yielded indeterminate findings transformed their approach for two subsequent, ongoing multisite palliative care trials.