Strategies to address the shortcomings of commonly used advanced chronic heart failure descriptors to improve recruitment in palliative care research: A parallel mixed-methods feasibility study.

Background: Recruitment challenges contribute to the paucity of palliative care research with advanced chronic heart failure patients.

Aim: To describe the challenges and outline strategies of recruiting advanced chronic heart failure patients.

Design: A feasibility study using a pre-post uncontrolled design.

Observer variability when evaluating patient movement from electronic portal images of pelvic radiotherapy fields.

Background And Purpose: A study has been performed to evaluate inter-observer variability when assessing pelvic patient movement using an electronic portal imaging device (EPID).

Materials And Methods: Four patient image sets were used with 3-6 portal images per set. The observer group consisted of nine radiographers with 3-18 months clinical EPID experience.