Response rates for surveys of complementary practitioners have not been studied.
Many articles are available which describe validation of tools to assess cultural competency of health care practitioners, yet have not been studied for their use in the clinical context.
Academics and practitioners should be studying these questions intensely.
The role of the general practitioner (GP) has also been studied in relation to screening uptake.
Procedures documented by general practitioners in primary care have not been studied in relation to procedure coding systems.
The performance of some "standard" designs that appeal to practitioners is also studied.
To ensure contextual soundness, the practitioners were in this study included in their actual professional roles, and the adolescents were regarded as the primary end-users, rather than merely informants.
Across the 13 clinical teams in the intervention arm of the study, 75 practitioners were eligible to be trained at study baseline.
Although all study practitioners were in agreement in terms of criteria for patient eligibility and selection, future studies may want to refine the consecutive approach we took to sampling in the course of routine practice, to reduce any possibility of 'cherry picking'.
