Barriers and Strategies for Recruiting Care Partners During the Hospitalization of People Living with Dementia: Lessons from a Hospital-Based Randomized Controlled Trial
: Care partner recruitment in inpatient settings is highly context-dependent and requires iterative, implementation-informed adaptation. Effective recruitment may be supported by embedding processes into routine inpatient workflows, clarifying recruitment roles, leveraging EHR-supported identification, and maintaining close clinical-research team collaboration to respond to the unpredictable presence of care partners and short discharge windows.
Authors
- Élise N. Arsenault Knudsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6048-3460)
- Emmanuel Quarcoo
- Dani Edwards
- Beth Fields (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8192-7144)
- Shelly VanDenBergh
- Kayla Dillon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5635-9528)
- Te‐Lien Ku
- Anne M Mortensen
- Henry P Karelitz
- Courtney M. Kuhlman
- Molly M. Gerhardt
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Wisconsin Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23040447
- Primary Topic
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute on Aging