A Response to: Challenges in Recruiting Patients to a Controlled Feasibility Study of a Drug for Opioid-Induced Constipation: Lessons From the Population With Advanced Cancer

Katherine Clark; Samuel Allingham; Jane L. Phillips; Linda Brown; David C. Currow

doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.04.037

A Response to: Challenges in Recruiting Patients to a Controlled Feasibility Study of a Drug for Opioid-Induced Constipation: Lessons From the Population With Advanced Cancer

Katherine Clark, Samuel Allingham, Jane L. Phillips, Linda Brown, David C. Currow

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To the Editor:
We were most interested to read the letter by Bull et al.1 As researchers, clinicians and academics in supportive and palliative care, the letter resonated with our own experiences when trying to recruit to studies exploring the problems of disordered bowel function in patients with advanced cancer. Although the authors of the published letter attribute this to the advanced cancer population, we would like to suggest an alternative opinion. In contrast, we submit that rather than this being an issue with the advanced illness stage of this patient cohort, the problems were related to the symptom they were investigating: constipation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1-e2
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume	58
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.04.037
Publication status	Published - Sep 2019
Externally published	Yes

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palliative care
disordered bowel function
constipation

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A Response to : Challenges in Recruiting Patients to a Controlled Feasibility Study of a Drug for Opioid-Induced Constipation: Lessons From the Population With Advanced Cancer. / Clark, Katherine; Allingham, Samuel; Phillips, Jane L.; Brown, Linda; Currow, David C.

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