Evaluation of electronic recruitment efforts of primary care providers as research subjects during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recruiting healthcare providers as research subjects often rely on in-person recruitment strategies. Little is known about recruiting provider participants via electronic recruitment methods. In this study, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and evaluate a primarily electronic approach to recruiting primary care providers (PCPs) as subjects in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a decision support intervention.

Methods

We adapted an existing framework for healthcare provider research recruitment, employing an electronic consent form and a mix of brief synchronous video presentations, email, and phone calls to recruit PCPs into the RCT. To evaluate the success of each electronic strategy, we estimated the number of consented PCPs assoc

SUBMITTER: Mazurenko O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9047458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature