Author ' s response to reviews Title : Recruiting and retaining GPs and patients in intervention studies

Recruiting and retaining GPs and patients in intervention studies: the DEPS-GP project as a case study

BACKGROUND Recruiting and retaining GPs for research can prove difficult, and may result in sub-optimal patient participation where GPs are required to recruit patients. Low participation rates may affect the validity of research. This paper describes a multi-faceted approach to maximise participation of GPs and their patients in intervention studies, using an Australian randomised controlled t...

Author ' s response to reviews Title : Screening and diagnosing depression in women visiting GPs ' drop in clinic in primary health care

Balancing trust and power: a qualitative study of GPs perceptions and strategies for retaining patients in preventive health checks

OBJECTIVE Little is known about how strategies of retaining patients are acted out by general practitioners (GPs) in the clinical encounter. With this study, we apply Grimens' (2009) analytical connection between trust and power to explore how trust and power appear in preventive health checks from the GPs' perspectives, and in what way trust and power affect and/or challenge strategies towards...

Author ' s response to reviews Title : An outpatient antibiotic stewardship intervention during the journey to JCI accreditation

Author ' s response to reviews Title : Development of a behaviour change intervention : a case study on the practical application of theory