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Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study
Danni Collingridge Moore, Sheila Payne, Lieve Van den Block, Maud Ten Koppel, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Katherine Froggatt, PACE (Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing homes in Europe) Consortium. BMC research notes, 2019-08-14
Topic: Health services, long-term care and technology
Multiple challenges were encountered in creating a sampling framework and contacting, recruiting and retaining care homes in the PACE study. Recruiting a randomly identified, representative cohort from a stratified sampling framework was problematic, as was engaging with care homes to ensure high response rates. Variation in the funding of care homes across the six countries involved in the study may explain the additional challenges encountered in England. Awareness of the challenges encountered in England in implementing an international study in care homes can inform the design and implementation of future studies within care homes. Further discussion is needed to determine the barriers and facilitators to conducting research in care homes, and how this is shaped by the focus of the study.
Key findings
- Multiple challenges were encountered in creating a sampling framework and contacting, recruiting and retaining care homes in the PACE study.
- Recruiting a randomly identified, representative cohort from a stratified sampling framework was problematic, as was engaging with care homes to ensure high response rates.
- Variation in the funding of care homes across the six countries involved in the study may explain the additional challenges encountered in England.
- Awareness of the challenges encountered in England in implementing an international study in care homes can inform the design and implementation of future studies within care homes.
- Further discussion is needed to determine the barriers and facilitators to conducting research in care homes, and how this is shaped by the focus of the study.
Study details
- Evidence strengthModerate
How this study scored 44/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 26 of the 59 points we could judge it on, which is 44 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (BMC research notes) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 3 / 5 | Rated “moderate” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2019 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | — / 7 | No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score |
| Citations per year | — / 5 | No citation count or no year — left out of this score |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
| Cited by studies here | — / 6 | Not yet checked against this library's citation graph — left out of this score |
| Still being cited | — / 4 | No yearly citation counts — left out of this score |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | 2 / 3 | PubMed indexes it as a multicentre study |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 31412910) |
| Free to read | — / 2 | Access not recorded — left out of this score |
| Points | 26 / 59 | Scored on 11 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 26 of the 59 points we could judge it on is 44 out of 100. |
| Total | 44 / 100 | — |
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APA 7th
Moore, D. C., Payne, S., Van den Block, L., Ten Koppel, M., Szczerbińska, K., & Froggatt, K. (2019). Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study. BMC research notes. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4543-2
Vancouver
Moore DC, Payne S, Van den Block L, Ten Koppel M, Szczerbińska K, Froggatt K. Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study. BMC research notes. 2019. doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4543-2. PMID: 31412910.
BibTeX
@article{moore2019-31412910,
author = {Moore, Danni Collingridge and Payne, Sheila and Van den Block, Lieve and Ten Koppel, Maud and Szczerbińska, Katarzyna and Froggatt, Katherine},
title = {{Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study}},
journal = {BMC research notes},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.1186/s13104-019-4543-2},
pmid = {31412910},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4543-2}
}
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