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Provider Resource Library
This resource library contains tools and resources intended to support recruitment and retention of primary care practices and physicians for research studies and quality improvement initiatives.
MUI provider resource topics range from budgeting and patient recruitment to practice recruitment and retention strategies. Select to access the definitions of these and other topics.
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There are numerous supportive quality improvement (QI) projects to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practices in primary care, but recruiting physician practices to join these projects is challenging, costly, and time consuming.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Barriers, Practice Recruitment Facilitators
Persistent barriers exist to engage rural providers in research and training. Provider shortages exacerbate these challenges, leading to a scarcity of time and limiting motivation to participate in research. We present application of an innovative engagement model to increase rural primary care provider participation in research. Using our Community Engagement and Research Core, we demonstrate that fundamental principles of training and expertise, attention to efficiency and multitasking, and commitment to community are important for addressing provider recruitment barriers.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Rural Recruitment
In this study, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and evaluate a primarily electronic approach to recruiting primary care providers (PCPs) as subjects in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a decision support intervention.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Strategies
The current study considers barriers and facilitators to conducting such research, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, within the context of recruiting practices for the STop UNhealthy (STUN) Alcohol Use Now trial.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Barriers, Practice Recruitment Facilitators
To compare rural independent and health system primary care practices with urban practices to external practice facilitation support in terms of recruitment, readiness, engagement, retention, and change in quality improvement (QI) capacity and quality metric performance. Investing practice facilitation and sustained QI strategies in rural independent practices, where the need is high and resources are low, will yield benefits that outweigh centrally prescribed models.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Recruitment Setting
The purpose of this article is to understand the motivations of rural-practicing primary care clinicians who participate in an intensive multiyear pragmatic randomized behavioral obesity intervention trial, Rural Engagement in Primary Care for Optimizing Weight Reduction (RE-POWER).
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Facilitators, Physician Recruitment Strategies, Rural Recruitment
Practice-based research is essential to generate the data necessary to understand outcomes in ambulatory oncology care. Although there is an increased interest in studying ambulatory oncology care, given the rising patient volumes and complexity in those settings, little guidance is available on how best to recruit ambulatory oncology practices for research.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Practice Recruitment Barriers, Practice Recruitment Facilitators
Recruiting practices to participate in practice transformation research trials may take more and different efforts. We reflect on practice recruitment for a recently-concluded trial of a diabetes self-management support system in 2 states and 36 practices.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
Recruiters must expand their recruitment tools to engage today's practices in quality improvement. Using grant proposals, online diaries, observational site visits, and interviews with key stakeholders, the authors identify successful practice recruitment strategies in the EvidenceNOW initiative.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
Ensuring the successful development and conduct of clinical trials in PBRNs requires a highly collaborative approach between academic research and PBRN teams.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Facilitators, Recruitment Setting, Budgeting
Despite the general belief that the research topic, invitation method, and interest in research may facilitate practice recruitment, our results suggest that most of the recruitment challenges represent managerial challenges.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Barriers, Practice Recruitment Facilitators
Clinicians not already participating in practice-based trials may have a narrower range of motivations than those already participating. These results point to the need for recruitment, engagement, and messaging approaches differentially tailored to the needs and interests of non-participating practices.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Facilitators, Physician Recruitment Strategies, Recruitment Setting
We designed a systematic process for recruiting physician-patient dyads in PBRNs and tested it in EXACKTE2, a large, cross-sectional, dyadic study.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Barriers, Physician Recruitment Strategies, Patient Recruitment
Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs), comprising community- and/or academically affiliated practices committed to improving medical care for a range of health problems, offer ideal settings for these trials, especially pragmatic clinical trials. However, many researchers are not familiar with working with PBRNs.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
This study evaluates recruitment of pediatricians into a study, before and after the development and addition of a quality improvement (QI) curriculum approved for American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 Credit as an enrollment incentive.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Maintenance of Certification (MOC), Value Proposition, Physician Recruitment Barriers
Early practice-based network projects were usually short term, current studies often introduce or compare practice innovations that require long-term evaluation. That change requires that practice sites remain engaged in research work for up to 5 years, a time that can allow for a significant "voltage drop," or decline in active participation.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Retention Strategies
The purpose of this study was to examine strategies for recruiting physician subjects in a practice-based research network continuing education research study, using different recruitment methods at four systems, or health plan arrangements.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
This paper reviews recruitment strategies, common challenges, and innovative practices from five recent primary care health services research studies in Ontario, Canada.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Practice Recruitment Barriers, Practice Recruitment Facilitators, Practice Retention Barriers
The purpose of this study was to understand factors associated with primary care physician research participation in a practice-based research network, and to compare perspectives by specialty.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Facilitators
This study assessed factors motivating PBRN clinicians to participate and stay involved in practice-based research in their primary care office setting.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Facilitators, Physician Retention
"Physicians-recruiting-physicians" is the preferred recruitment approach for practice-based research. However, yields are variable; and the approach can be costly and lead to biased, unrepresentative samples.
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Type of Resource: Peer Reviewed Literature
Topics: Physician Recruitment Facilitators, Physician Recruitment Strategies
