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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Optimising participation and generalisability: the use of opt-out recruitment for an implementation trial in primary care
Authors:
Suzanne Hartley, Paul Carder, Robbie Foy, Peter Heudtlass, Liz Glidewell, Emma Ingleson, Stella Johnson, Paul Lord, Tom Willis, Amanda Farrin
Published in:
Trials
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Action to Support Practices Implementing Research Evidence (ASPIRE) is an NIHR-funded programme aiming to develop and evaluate interventions to promote the uptake of NICE recommendations in general practice. Multifaceted intervention packages targeting key recommendations will be evaluated using anonymised, routinely collected electronic health records in two parallel cluster randomised controlled trials (cRCTs) in 144 general practices across West Yorkshire. We will replicate the ‘real-life’ conditions under which quality improvement initiatives are conducted: ensuring that a wide range of general practices typically targeted by such initiatives is therefore critical to the generalisability of the trial findings. …
