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.
Several studies, especially those focused on practitioner-based CAM, have emphasized the centrality of the patient-provider relationship and experiences with health care delivery in patient-reported experiences with CAM [ 5, 6, 10, 31, 36, 40].
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.
By focusing on practitioners in industry, this work complements current surveys in optimisation that have mainly focused on published literature.
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.
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].
There appears to be a dearth of studies that have focused on educating practitioners to identify elder financial abuse; one study has been found that reports success in promoting awareness of this "underappreciated but prevalent problem" [ 13].
While clinical research has focused on what practitioners do and outcomes (whether subjective or objective), here we have focused on what leads women to engage practitioners.
After writing seven books on the gritty areas of spiritual life and hearing readers' responses, and then opening my therapy practice focused on spiritual practitioners, I have found myself privy and privilege to a vast body of information and emerging collective themes.
