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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 document provides an example of an EvidenceNOW Cooperative's recruitment brochure. This brochure outlines participation requirements and benefits of practice participation.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition
This resource is an example of a recruitment phone call script that displays strategies for message framing, responding to “no’s”, eligibility screening and leaving voicemails.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
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
This practice recruitment flyer from the EvidenceNow Healthy Hearts NYC project is an example of how to present a research study in recruitment materials, including the benefits and cost of participation and what makes the study unique.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies, Value Proposition
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
This resource is an example of a recruitment flyer that presents frequently asked questions regarding practice enrollment in a research study; questions range from physician burden and benefits of participation to data protection.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
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
This resource is an example of a recruitment memo for integrated health care systems, which outlines eligibility requirements, benefits of participation, and information on how to apply to the study.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
This diagram displays the recruitment process flow for the EvidenceNOW Healthy Hearts Northwest project, from practice completion of interest forms to initial site visit.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment
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
This resource provides an example of a recruitment email directed towards hospital administration and leadership detailing the purpose of the study, including a one-pager attachment that provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of practices and the research team.
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Type of Resource: Recruitment Materials
Topics: Practice Recruitment Strategies
"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
