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].
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 core of our surveys was adopted from a previously testing instrument [ 22- 24] and focused on practitioners' assessments of competencies previously determined to be critical to EBDM in chronic disease [ 33].
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.
Information on the specialization of the participating HCPs was provided in 70%% of the protocols, with the majority focusing on general practitioners and internists [for additional information, see Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) 1].
Transparency can be increased, for example by focusing on inter-practitioner variation in dietetic treatment.
We present the practitioner and practice organization data through two different lenses: one focusing on the characteristics of practitioners, regardless of their practice composition, and the other focusing on practice location and composition.
