Primary care physicians' views about gatekeeping in clinical research recruitment: A qualitative study.

CONCLUSION: Our data show evidence of gatekeeping by primary care physicians when deciding to participate in, and recruit their patients to, clinical studies. We argue that such gatekeeping is a way of addressing the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of clinician and researcher. It need not be ethically problematic, but primary care physicians should be reflexive about their recruitment practices and biases. In addition, this form of gatekeeping should be explicitly recognized in protocol design and the analysis of trial findings. PMID: 28949839 [PubMed - in process]
Source: AJOB Primary Research - Category: Medical Ethics Tags: AJOB Empir Bioeth Source Type: research