Engaging Primary Care Practices in Studies of Improvement: Did You Budget Enough for Practice Recruitment?
CONCLUSIONS: Recruitment of practices for large-scale practice quality improvement transformation initiatives is difficult and costly. The cost of recruiting practices without existing partnerships is expensive, costing 7 times more than reaching out to familiar practices. Investigators initiating and studying practice quality improvement initiatives should budget adequate funds to support high-touch recruitment strategies, including building trusted relationships over a long time frame, for a year or more.
PMID: 29632229 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - Category: Primary Care Authors: Fagnan LJ, Walunas TL, Parchman ML, Dickinson CL, Murphy KM, Howell R, Jackson KL, Madden MB, Ciesla JR, Mazurek KD, Kho AN, Solberg LI Tags: Ann Fam Med Source Type: research