Comparing traditional and participatory dissemination of a shared decision making intervention (ADAPT-NC): a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asthma is a common disease that affects people of all ages and has significant morbidity and mortality. Poor outcomes and health disparities related to asthma result in part from the difficulty of disseminating new evidence and care delivery methods such as shared decision making (SDM) into clinical practice.

Methods/design

This non-blinded study will randomize 30 primary care clinics in NC stratified by four PBRNs. We will test dissemination across these practices using a facilitator-led participatory approach to dissemination (FLOW), a novel method of participatory dissemination involving key principles of community-based participatory research, and a more typical "lunch and learn" dissemination method. Specifically, we will use cluster randomization to assign e

SUBMITTER: Tapp H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4219101 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature