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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2000

Problems in recruiting community-based physicians for health services research.

S Asch, S E Connor, E G Hamilton, S A Fox

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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129 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

S AschWest Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Steven_Asch@rand.org
S E Connor
E G Hamilton
S A Fox

Funding

First-in-class peptide therapeutics for mitochondrial disorders: molecular mechanism of action and optimization of designR01AG065879 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI ALDER, NATHAN N · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
VARIATION IN PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT USE OF MAMMOGRAPHYR01CA065879 · NCI · RAND CORPORATION · PI FOX, SARAH A · 1994 to 1996
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NCI NIH HHS 1 RO1 CA65879NIA NIH HHS R01 AG065879
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo qualitatively determine factors that are associated with higher participation rates in community-based health services research requiring significant physician participation burden. MEASUREMENTS: A review of the literature was undertaken using MEDLINE and the Social Science Research Index to identify health services research studies that recruited large community-based samples of individual physicians and in which the participation burden exceeded that of merely completing a survey. Two reviewers abstracted data on the recruitment methods, and first authors were contacted to supplement published information. MAIN

resultsSixteen studies were identified with participation rates from 2.5% to 91%. Almost all studies used physician recruiters to personally contact potential participants. Recruiters often knew some of the physicians to be recruited, and personal contact with these "known" physicians resulted in greater participation rates. Incentives were generally absent or modest, and at modest levels, did not appear to affect participation rates. Investigators were almost always affiliated with academic institutions, but were divided as to whether this helped or hindered recruitment. HMO-based and minority physicians were more difficult to recruit. Potential participants most often cited time pressures on staff and themselves as the study burden that caused them to decline.

conclusionsPhysician personal contact and friendship networks are powerful tools for recruitment. Participation rates might improve by including HMO and minority physicians in the recruitment process. Investigators should transfer as much of the study burden from participating physicians to project staff as possible.

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Patient SelectionCommunity Health ServicesFemaleHealth Maintenance OrganizationsHealth Services ResearchHumansMaleMinority GroupsOrganizational Affiliation

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PMID10940152
PMCPMC1495576

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