Developing an approach to enhance recruitment for a cluster-randomised implementation trial: leveraging deliberative participation and credible messengers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate an innovative approach to recruit 40 hospitals to a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) to improve discharge antibiotic prescribing.

Design

This study describes the design, implementation and impact of a theory-informed recruitment approach for hospitals participating in the Reducing Overuse of Antibiotics at Discharge (ROAD) Home trial.

Setting

An inperson meeting of a quality improvement collaborative of acute care hospitals in the state of Michigan.

Participants

Representatives from acute care hospitals that are part of the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium.

Interventions

Small group recruitment sessions that combined deliberative participation and credible messengers to recruit hospitals to participate in a clu

SUBMITTER: Vaughn VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12443204 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature