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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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This pocket guide outlines lifestyle modifications, diagnosis codes, and treatment options for urinary incontinence for Veterans Administration providers.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Job Aids
Topics: UI, EHR
This short one-pager includes recommendations by clinicians for clinicians on treating patients with UI.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Provider Education Materials
Topics: UI
This resource is an example of a recruitment flyer that presents frequently asked questions regarding practice enrollment in a research study, in addition to a timeline and checklist for tracking key steps throughout practice enrollment, pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention periods.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
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
These practice- and patient-facing sustainability menus offer next steps after project participation, such as practice opportunities for continuing quality improvement efforts and additional patient resources to help them manage their urinary incontinence.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Tools and Toolkits
Topics: Sustainability, UI
This patient recruitment flyer is an example of one way for practices to recruit patients for AHRQ’s Managing Urinary Incontinence Project.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Recruitment Materials
Topics: Patient Recruitment, UI
This pocket guide provides clinicians with a quick view of the urinary incontinence treatment algorithm as well as descriptions of the clinical decision support tools developed as part of a multisite practice-based intervention to improve care for a diverse population of women with urinary incontinence.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Job Aids
Topics: UI, EHR
Using 5 case studies, this educational module guides clinicians on how to screen, identify, and treat urinary incontinence in women.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Provider Education Materials
Topics: UI
This short one-pager educates women about the scope of the UI problem, what effective nonsurgical treatments are available, and encourages them to talk to their doctor.
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Type of Resource: Grantee-Developed Resource, Patient Education Materials
Topics: UI
This UI care pathway flowchart was created using draw.io by the EMPOWER study team to aid practices participating in their intervention designed for the AHRQ EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence initiative.
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Type of Resource: Tools and Toolkits, Grantee-Developed Resource
Topics: UI
This best practice advisory is based on a practice-based intervention to improve care for a diverse population of women with urinary incontinence.
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Type of Resource: Tools and Toolkits, Grantee-Developed Resource
Topics: UI, EHR
This document is a table of contents providing links to a suite of tools supplied by practice facilitators to support the implementation of screening for and treating urinary incontinence in women.
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Type of Resource: Tools and Toolkits, Grantee-Developed Resource
Topics: Patient Screening, UI, Provider Recruitment, EHR
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
This resource is an example of a recruitment flyer/handout that focuses on the value proposition of practice participation in a research study.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Value Proposition
This resource is an example of a recruitment phone call script for conversations with a CMO, CEO or QI lead, or their assistant; the script provides message framing for providing a brief overview of the project and responding to voicemails or requests to speak at a later time.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
This toolkit provides guidance, tips, and examples to help support future efforts to engage practices in quality improvement initiatives.
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Type of Resource: Tools and Toolkits
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition, Practice Retention Strategies
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
This resource is an example of a recruitment invitation letter directed towards small primary care practices that outlines benefits of practice participation and information on how to enroll.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition, Recruitment Setting
This practice recruitment flyer from the EvidenceNow Healthy Hearts NYC project is an example of how to present the value proposition of practice participation in a research study.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition
This resource is an example of an in-depth recruitment package for primary care practices; it provides background on the research project and outlines the value proposition for participating practices, eligibility and participation requirements, and the application process.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition
This resource is an example of a recruitment flyer that describes the research project, the benefits of practice participation, and a form that practices can complete and return to join the study.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition