Recruiting community health centers into pragmatic research: Findings from STOP CRC.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Challenges of recruiting participants into pragmatic trials, particularly at the level of the health system, remain largely unexplored. As part of Strategies and Opportunities to STOP Colon Cancer in Priority Populations (STOP CRC), we recruited eight separate community health centers (consisting of 26 individual safety net clinics) into a large comparative effectiveness pragmatic study to evaluate methods of raising the rates of colorectal cancer screening.

Methods

In partnership with STOP CRC's advisory board, we defined criteria to identify eligible health centers and applied these criteria to a list of health centers in Washington, Oregon, and California affiliated with Oregon Community Health Information Network, a 16-state practice-based research network of

SUBMITTER: Coronado GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785071 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature