MUI Provider Resource Topic Definitions

Practice Recruitment—resources that discuss the recruitment of primary care practices for research purposes that are not captured by the more specific sub-categories below.

• Practice Recruitment Strategies—resources that discuss plans or methods that support the successful recruitment of primary care practices into research studies.
  • Value Proposition—resources that highlight benefits, services, or features of a research study that make participation in the study attractive to primary care practices.
  • Maintenance of Certification (MOC)—resources that discuss MOC in relation to research recruitment, enrollment, or retention, such as the addition of MOC crediting activities to study protocols as a research participation incentive.
• Practice Recruitment Barriers—resources that discuss challenges and problems encountered throughout the process of recruiting primary care practices into research studies. This may include administrative, financial, and organizational barriers.
• Practice Recruitment Facilitators—resources that discuss factors that motivate primary care practices to participate in practice-based research studies.
• Recruitment Setting—resources that discuss the environment or location of primary care practices, or socio-cultural context of the patients it serves, in relation to recruitment of those practices for research.
  • Rural Recruitment—resources that discuss recruitment of rural primary care practices for research.
  • Low Income Recruitment—resources that discuss recruitment of primary care practices that serve low-income patients.  

Practice Retention—resources that discuss factors, barriers, or challenges related to maintaining sustained involvement of primary care practices throughout the life of the research study, and related strategies for reducing attrition.

• Practice Retention Strategies—resources that discuss strategies for reducing attrition of primary care practices from research.
• Practice Retention Barriers—resources that discuss barriers or challenges related to maintaining sustained involvement of primary care practices throughout the life of the research study.
• Practice Retention Facilitators—resources that discuss factors that motivate primary care practices to remain engaged in research studies.

Physician Recruitment—resources that discuss the recruitment of individual primary care clinicians for participation in research studies in their primary care practices.

• Physician Recruitment Strategies—resources that discuss plans or methods that support the successful recruitment of physicians from primary care practices into research studies.
• Physician Recruitment Barriers—resources that discuss challenges and problems encountered throughout the process of recruiting physicians from primary care practices into research studies, including administrative, financial, and organizational barriers.
• Physician Recruitment Facilitators—resources that discuss factors that motivate physicians to participate in practice-based research studies.

Physician Retention—resources that discuss factors, barriers, or challenges related to maintaining sustained involvement of physicians throughout the life of the research study, and related strategies for reducing attrition.

• Physician Retention Strategies—resources that discuss strategies for reducing attrition of primary care physicians from research.
• Physician Retention Barriers—resources that discuss barriers or challenges related to maintaining sustained involvement of primary care physicians throughout the life of the research study.
• Physician Retention Facilitators—resources that discuss factors that motivate primary care physicians to remain engaged in research studies.

Budgeting—resources that discuss how the costs associated with recruiting and enrolling primary care practices in research studies are forecasted prior to, and tracked throughout, recruitment and enrollment. This tag is not applied to articles that discuss finances or budgeting as a recruitment barrier.

UI—any resources that is UI-specific.

Patient Screening—resources that discuss or can be used for screening patients for UI.

Patient Recruitment—resources that discuss the recruitment of individual patients or groups of patients for participation in primary care research or quality improvement projects.

• Patient Recruitment Strategies—resources that discuss plans or methods that support the successful recruitment of patients into primary care research studies or quality improvement projects.
• Patient Recruitment Barriers—resources that discuss challenges and problems encountered throughout the process of recruiting patients into primary care research studies or quality improvement projects.
• Patient Recruitment Facilitators—resources that discuss factors that motivate patients to participate in primary care research studies or quality improvement projects.

Sustainability—resources that discuss project sustainability or can be used to support ongoing quality improvement activities.

EHR—resources that discuss the use of electronic health records or can be used within an electronic health record to improve care.