Abstract
AbstractIncreasing the role of palliative social workers in clinical trials can improve quality of life, access to good medical care, and access to state of the art treatments. In order for social workers to have a role on clinical trial multidisciplinary teams, their knowledge base needs to include many aspects of clinical trials. This chapter includes an introduction to this knowledge. It also offers ways social workers can add value to clinical trial multidisciplinary teams in terms of helping to improve recruitment of participants (e.g., improve diversity of participants through advocacy, ensuring participants are fully informed about the decision to join or withdraw from a study). This improvement will come from bringing expertise on minimizing social injustice issues and providing psychosocial support to the team and the participants.