Peer Insights: Fostering Clinic-Wide Engagement for Myeloma Clinical Trials
Peer Insights: Fostering Clinic-Wide Engagement for Myeloma Clinical Trials from Patient Empowerment Network on Vimeo.
Dr. Craig Cole from Karmanos Cancer Institute speaks to the success of clinical trials relying on not only provider endorsement, but also on the collective enthusiasm and involvement of all healthcare staff, which cultivates a patient-centric culture promoting myeloma trial participation and engagement.
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Transcript:
Dr. Craig Cole:
Some of the other barriers to clinical trials, the nurses and the other staff in the cancer center aren’t aware of the clinical trials, that when a patient goes through the clinic, they talk to more than just the provider. They talk to the treatment nurses, they talk to the intake people, they talk to the MAs, they talk to the scheduling people. And there was a study that was done a few years ago in looking at patients who were given consent forms and declined clinical trials. And they found that a lot of patients declined clinical trials, were because they said that, well, their doctor didn’t want them on the trial.
And when they looked further into that, they saw that, well, the doctor offered them a clinical trial, but when they discussed the clinical trial with a nurse practitioner, when they discussed that trial with a treatment nurse or the MA or any of the other staff, when they didn’t know about the clinical trial, that was considered well, if you don’t know about the clinical trial, it must not be good for me. And then they withdrew from the trial.
It really shouldn’t be left in the provider compartment. That excitement should be clinic-wide. And when you have that all-in approach where everybody’s involved, everyone’s excited about clinical trials, it produces a culture of clinical trials that everybody wants to be part of, and the patients then can jump on that bus and feel comfortable participating in the trial.
