Financial incentives to increase stool collection rates for microbiome studies in adult bone marrow transplant patients

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 5; p. e0267974
• Main Authors: Thompson, Jillian C., Ren, Yi, Romero, Kristi, Lew, Meagan, Bush, Amy T., Messina, Julia A., Jung, Sin-Ho, Siamakpour-Reihani, Sharareh, Miller, Julie, Jenq, Robert R., Peled, Jonathan U., van den Brink, Marcel R. M., Chao, Nelson J., Shrime, Mark G., Sung, Anthony D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 04.05.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Autografts; Biology and Life Sciences; Bone marrow; Bone marrow transplantation; Bone Marrow Transplantation - methods; Cancer; Collection; Economic incentives; Evaluation; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation - methods; Hematopoietic stem cells; Humans; Incentives; Influence; Medical research; Medical screening; Medicine and Health Sciences; Medicine, Experimental; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Monetary incentives; Motivation; Patients; Prospective Studies; Social Sciences; Stem cell transplantation; Stem cells; Transplantation; Transplantation Conditioning - methods; Transplantation, Autologous; Transplantation, Homologous; Transplants & implants; United States

In order to study the role of the microbiome in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT), researchers collect stool samples from patients at various time points throughout HCT. However, stool collection requires active subject participation and may be limited by patient reluctance to handling s...