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Table 10 Practice staff suggestions for improvement

From: Maximising recruitment of research participants into a general practice based randomised controlled trial concerning lung diagnosis—staff insights from an embedded qualitative study

More input from research team required:

if all the admin [...] apart from identifying the patient [...] and arranging the chest x-ray, was taken out of our hands [...] then that would’ve definitely been easier.

(Recruiter 8 General Practitioner, Low Recruiter)

 

Preference for less study payment and more recruitment help:

we’d be more than happy to you know, decrease the money if we had somebody here to help out with the recruitment.

(Recruiter 1 General Practitioner, Low Recruiter)

 

Problems with recruitment help:

it (providing administrative support) wasn’t going to be worth their (the study team’s) whilst unless we could get about 3, a minimum of 3 patients [...] And we’re not enrolling at that sort of rate.

(Recruiter 7 General Practitioner, High Recruiter)

 

Importance of Practice Managers having input into study design:

‘needing in terms of the delivery of it (the trial), it’s almost a little like Ivory Tower thinking in that this is what we’re going to do and it’s easy to do it. And those individuals not having an understanding of what goes on in primary care.

(Recruiter 6 Practice Manager, Low Recruiter)

 

Having the support of a mentor:

and supported with education and updates and things like that." (Recruiter 2 Research Nurse, High Recruiter).