Table 1.

Reasons for declining to enroll in the TREAT studies

Total potential alcoholic hepatitis patients	431
Total alcoholic hepatitis patients enrolled	218
Total unable to recruit	213
Reason for declining	Number of individuals (% of total declining)
Reason not specified	136 (63%)
Too sick/not feeling well/poor prognosis	20 (9%)
Patient unable to consent	13 (6%)
Not interested in research	11 (5%)
Does not accept alcoholic hepatitis diagnosis /denies drinking/alcoholism	8 (4%)
Homeless	6 (3%)
Wants to focus on sobriety and/or getting better/recovery	6 (3%)
Transportation concerns/unable to complete follow up visits	5 (2%)
Soon to be discharged from the hospital/Going home	5 (2%)
Concerns from patient family or spouse	5 (2%)
Too busy/time concerns/ “too much going on”	2 (1%)
Going to rehab	3 (1%)
No benefit from participating	2 (1%)
Moving soon	1 (1%)
Currently in another research study	2 (1%)

This information was gathered from the study coordinators’ recruitment logs. There was variability in what constituted a “potential alcoholic hepatitis patient”, as some hospitalized patients were discharged before a careful chart review could be performed. Thus the total potential patients and total unable to recruit are approximations. Some patients gave more than one reason for not wanting to participate.