Primary care involvement in clinical research - prerequisites, motivators, and barriers: results from a study series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term reinforcement in the role of primary care and improvement the healthcare system as a whole requires the involvement of GPs in clinical research processes. However, many clinical studies fail due to failure to achieve sample population targets amongst GPs and their patients. This issue has been identified and discussed, but effective strategies to overcome it are still lacking. One of the reasons is that the positions, requirements, and experiences of GPs on participating in clinical research have hardly been examined up to now.

Methods

The years 2021 and 2022 saw three quantitative and qualitative surveys amongst GPs in Germany with the aim of shedding light on the attitudes, experiences, and potential issues regarding the involvement of primary care in

SUBMITTER: Wangler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953082 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature