NCARE (Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End-of-life Care)

Feedback of Trial Results to Participants

Project Duration

2007 - 2008

Funder

Cancer Research UK

Project Staff

  • Prof Karen Cox (PI) 1
  • Dr Nima Moghaddam 1
  • Ruth Elkan 1

Staff Institutions

  1. The University of Nottingham
 

Aims

To examine the gap between the rhetoric, the evidence and the practice of feeding back trial results to those who take part in cancer trials and identify best practice in this area. 

  • To investigate the relationship between the rhetoric, the evidence and the practice of feeding back trial results 
  • To examine the ethical and practical issues associated with feeding back trial results to participants 
  • To identify areas of best practice and future areas of research in relation to effective and appropriate feedback of trial results

Methods

Systematic review, survey and interviews.

Outcomes and Findings

Feedback of trial results to participants: A literature review and stakeholder survey, Executive Report (PDF)

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Publications

Cox, K., Moghaddam, N., Bird, L., Elkan, R. (2010) Feedback of trial results to participants: A survey of clinicians' and patients' attitudes and experiences. In press European Journal of Oncology Nursing.

 

 

NCARE (Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End-of-life Care)

University of Nottingham
School of Health Sciences
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA


email: kristian.pollock@nottingham.ac.uk