Our approach differs from previous attempts to predict medicolegal risk in two main respects: inclusion of time-varying predictors (such as a continuously changing measure of prior events) and a focus on practitioners who have already experienced at least one complaint.
"We made a conscious effort to maintain the focus on practitioners.
The study aimed to examine the factors influencing referral to rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury (TBI) by using social problems theory as a conceptual model to focus on practitioners and the process of decision-making in two Australian hospitals.
The researchers' professional development focus on practitioner-friendly exploration of MEAs provided an important juxtaposition of the real daily demands of mathematics curricula and a seemingly less realistic unbounded creative project.
This makes a focus on practitioners, rather than sites or practices, essential.
Through an analytical process incorporating qualitative content analysis and ideological critique, it focuses on practitioner perceptions of the types and configuration of barriers between scholars and a greater cultural adoption of OA practices.
This was primarily focused on practitioner and health system perspectives of improving quality of care in diabetes, and a particular interest in structural barriers to self-management.
Focusing on practitioner decision making Gabbay and May suggested that doctors do not act on published evidence base but on the anecdotes and unsubstantiated opinions of respected colleagues or personal experience [ 31].
Existing studies on this topic have been primarily descriptive in nature, focusing on practitioner profiles and demographics [ 11, 16], the practice environment [ 9, 17- 23], and education, training or regulatory developments [ 12, 14, 24- 26].
However communities of practice are most likely successful when they remain focused on practitioner experiences and needs [ 4] and thus require leadership from within the community, albeit from expert community members.
