Also, most surveys have focused on the patients' perspective of recruitment barriers whereas the perspective of recruiting physicians has received less attention.
The group established a nationwide cohort of trials with recruiting physicians being interviewed about crucial determinants of recruitment at a center level.
Still, it is important to note that a successful recruitment also depends much on the motivation of recruiting physicians for the study and how they communicate the study to their patients [ 22].
The only item that recruiting physicians reported to have some negative impact on recruitment was "In my opinion, the trial arm "late rehabilitation" does not correspond to actual best practice" (median 4.5 [IQR 3 -6]) In general, recruiting physicians felt to be trained adequately.
Anecdotally we heard of small towns actively recruiting physicians to establish such practices, but this form of recruitment was not part of our study.
We developed and pilot-tested a self-administered questionnaire where recruiting physicians were asked to express their agreement with statements about recruitment barriers on a Likert-type scale from 1 (full agreement with statement = very substantial recruitment barrier) to 7 (no agreement with statement = no recruitment barrier).
Department chiefs predict a growing difficulty in recruiting physicians and residents.
The nurses, who were responsible for quality assurance and regulatory compliance, said they began having concerns about Dr. Arafiles soon after he was hired in 2008 by the hospital, which has difficulty recruiting physicians to remote West Texas.
Of course, it is not for me to decide if they and/or their population would be better off with a more Stanford-like model, but it provides me with an interesting perspective and leads me to wonder if lower resource settings in the US might have an easier time recruiting physicians if our training left us more comfortable administering care more independently.
One day, while on rounds in the hospital, he noticed a flyer on a bulletin board recruiting physicians to join the Armed Forces.
Medicaid, the government program for low-income families, has trouble recruiting physicians to see its patients because its reimbursements are so low.
