TY - JOUR
T1 - General Practitioners’ Participation in a Large, Multicountry Combined General Practitioner-Patient Survey
T2 - Recruitment Procedures and Participation Rate
AU - Groenewegen, P.P.
AU - Greβ, S.
AU - Schäfer, Willemijn
PY - 2016/3/7
Y1 - 2016/3/7
N2 - Theparticipationofgeneralpractitioners(GPs)isessentialinresearchontheperformanceofprimarycare.Thispaper describestheimplementationofalarge,multicountrystudyinprimarycarethatcombinesasurveyamongGPsandalinkedsurvey amongpatientsthatvisitedtheirpractice(theQUALICOPCstudy).Theaimistodescribetherecruitmentprocedureandexplore differencesbetweencountriesintheparticipationrateoftheGPs.Methods.Descriptiveanalyseswereusedtodocumentrecruitment proceduresandtoassesshypothesespotentiallyexplainingvariationinparticipationratesbetweencountries.Results.Thesurvey was implemented in 31 European countries. GPs were mainly selected through random sampling. The actual implementation of thestudydifferedbetweencountries.Themedianparticipationratewas30%.Bothmaterial(suchasthepaymentsystemofGPsin acountry)andimmaterialinfluences(suchasestimatedsurveypressure)arerelatedtodifferencesbetweencountries.Conclusion. This study shows that the participation of GPs may indeed be influenced by the context of the country. The implementation of complexdatacollectionisdifficulttorealizeinacompletelyuniformway.Procedureshavetobetunedtothecontextofthecountry.
AB - Theparticipationofgeneralpractitioners(GPs)isessentialinresearchontheperformanceofprimarycare.Thispaper describestheimplementationofalarge,multicountrystudyinprimarycarethatcombinesasurveyamongGPsandalinkedsurvey amongpatientsthatvisitedtheirpractice(theQUALICOPCstudy).Theaimistodescribetherecruitmentprocedureandexplore differencesbetweencountriesintheparticipationrateoftheGPs.Methods.Descriptiveanalyseswereusedtodocumentrecruitment proceduresandtoassesshypothesespotentiallyexplainingvariationinparticipationratesbetweencountries.Results.Thesurvey was implemented in 31 European countries. GPs were mainly selected through random sampling. The actual implementation of thestudydifferedbetweencountries.Themedianparticipationratewas30%.Bothmaterial(suchasthepaymentsystemofGPsin acountry)andimmaterialinfluences(suchasestimatedsurveypressure)arerelatedtodifferencesbetweencountries.Conclusion. This study shows that the participation of GPs may indeed be influenced by the context of the country. The implementation of complexdatacollectionisdifficulttorealizeinacompletelyuniformway.Procedureshavetobetunedtothecontextofthecountry.
U2 - 10.1155/2016/4929432
DO - 10.1155/2016/4929432
M3 - Article
SN - 2090-2042
VL - 2016
JO - International Journal of Family Medicine
JF - International Journal of Family Medicine
ER -